A heat wave, drought, climate change, and more: Read why the lightning fires raging in the West are expanding so rapidly this year. Plus, what to know about the latest efforts to contain the blazes and monitor pollution, and how firefighting has evolved in the years since the 1970 Laguna Fire.
When state fire authorities announced recently that the CZU Lightning Complex fire had quadrupled in size in just one day, an audible gasp rose from the audience. Although lightning fires have been scorching the state since prehistoric times, the speed with which the SCU and LNU lightning complex …
Firefighters continued to gain ground Sunday against the nearly two dozen wildfires blazing in California — including the two complex fires in the San Francisco Bay Area that have burned more than 750,000 acres and forced hundreds of thousands of evacuations. "Overall, firefighters [are] making …
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Hundreds of US Army soldiers will soon be joining the fire fight against California's wildfires. The USDA Forest Service …
PurpleAir’s network of air quality monitors and its real-time map have provided vital information to people looking to avoid bad health outcomes. Over the last 12 days, wildfires have burned more than 1.2 million acres of land in California, an area collectively larger than Delaware. As the smoke …
Wildfires across the state have burned more than a million acres, the equivalent of 2,000-plus square miles. The spread of wildfires over the past two weeks has only continued to push smoke out across the United States. The wildfires have burned swaths of California, Arizona, Washington and Colorado, …
Hundreds of fires burning. Dozens of homes lost. An army of firefighters coming in from nearby cities and states to battle the flames, with no end in …
