California Wildfire

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A firefighter sprays water while trying to stop the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, from spreading to neighboring homes in Doyle, Calif., Saturday, July 10, 2021. Pushed by heavy winds amid a heat wave, the fire came out of the hills and destroyed multiple residences in central Doyle. (AP Photo)

California and other parts of the West broil and burn

Late Saturday, flames jumped U.S. 395, which was closed near the small town of Doyle in California’s Lassen County

12 Jul 2021 5:49 PM

Cal Fire Battalion Chief Craig Newell carries a hose while battling the North Complex Fire in Plumas National Forest, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Firefighters trying to contain the massive wildfires in Oregon, California and Washington state are constantly on the verge of exhaustion as they try to save suburban houses, including some in their own neighborhoods. (AP)

Heavy showers bring relief to fire-ravaged Oregon as death toll rises in California

The blazes, described as ‘unprecedented’ in scope and ferocity, have largely incinerated several small towns, along with thousands of homes

19 Sep 2020 9:23 AM

Mill Creek Hotshots set a backfire to protect homes during the Bobcat Fire on September 13, 2020 in Arcadia, California. California wildfires that have already incinerated a record 2.3 million acres this year and are expected to continue till December. The Bobcat Fire, burning in the San Gabriel Mountains, has grown to about 32,000 acres and is only 6% contained. (AFP)

Trump and Harris head for California as US wildfires ignite political row

The history-making blazes have now burned through nearly five million acres (two million hectares) across the US West

14 Sep 2020 1:41 PM

Firefighters with the Monitor Fire Department wait alongside the road surrounded by smoke in an area destroyed by a wildfire Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, near Mill City, Oregon. (AP)

Search on for bodies in charred path of wildfires, Trump to visit California

More than 4,000 homes and other structures have been incinerated in California alone over the past three weeks

13 Sep 2020 11:24 AM

Members of firefighters walk in line during a wildfire in Yucaipa, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. Three fast-spreading California wildfires sent people fleeing Saturday, with one trapping campers at a reservoir in the Sierra National Forest, as a brutal heat wave pushed temperatures into triple digits in many parts of state.(AP)

California fire triggered by 'gender reveal firework'

Gender reveal parties are held during pregnancy to unveil the sex of the expected child, sometimes announced by pink or blue smoke fireworks

07 Sep 2020 12:30 PM

A member of a California Dept. of Corrections fire crew runs along a containment line with a chainsaw while fighting the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire. (AP)

California fires claim 6 lives, threaten thousands of homes

Many of the fires were sparked by lightning strikes, nearly 12,000 of them caused by brief thunderstorms since last weekend

22 Aug 2020 11:47 AM

The California wildfire had charred more than 50,000 acres, destroying hundreds of houses. (Photo: AP)

Toxic effects post-wildfires are more harmful than the calamity itself

Scientists have studied wildfires for decades learning much about the impact on air, soil and nearby ecosystems in the urban communities.

13 Mar 2019 6:14 PM

Cars scorched by the Carr Fire rest at a residence in Redding, California on July 27. (Photo: AP)

Wildfire roars into Californian city, people drive over yards, curbs to escape flames

The flames so thoroughly ate up homes that it’s difficult to tell how many once stood above the pile of ash and smoking rubble that remains.

28 Jul 2018 1:57 PM

In 2007 Jenn Thompson’s cat, Pilot, left the family’s old home never to return again. (Representational Imgae/ Pixabay)

Family reunites with missing cat after 10 years

Thompson received a call on October 31, that Pilot, though badly burned and in extremely poor share, was alive and was being looked after.

29 Dec 2017 12:57 PM