wildfires

Sydney is blanketed under thick wood smoke for a fourth consecutive day due to hazard reduction burns in preparation for the wildfire season.

The wildfires killed at least 115 people and displaced thousands more.

Maui County has brought a lawsuit against the utility company claiming that it did not shut off its power lines despite the high winds and dry conditions.

Residents in a leafy suburb of the Greek capital have united this summer to prevent deadly wildfires from reaching their homes. They’ve turned to drones.

Within hours of Maui County releasing 388 names of people unaccounted for following the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, some cases were already being resolved Friday as relatives or the people themselves reported they were safe.

The FBI said Wednesday that officials are working to locate approximately 1,100 people who remain missing two weeks after a devastating fire razed Lahaina, Hawaii.

Firefighters in Canada captured video of a fire whirl over Gun Lake, Canada, on Aug. 17 in the Downton Lake fire.

Firefighters scouring the area of a major wildfire in northeastern Greece have found the bodies of 18 people thought to have been migrants who entered the country from Turkey.

Authorities say a second person has died in wildfires in eastern Washington state that have burned hundreds of structures and briefly closed a section of an interstate.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing Facebook of putting profits over people’s safety during Canada’s wildfire emergencies.

The wildfires have damaged hundred of homes and burned at least 25,000 acres.

The Canary Islands leader says police have confirmed that a wildfire on the tourist island of Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands was started deliberately.

Firefighters have kept wildfires at bay near the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as well as a threatened city in British Columbia, though no one is claiming victory as forecasters warn that drier and windier weather is coming.

“We fought 100 years of fires all in one night,” West Kelowna Fire Chief Jason Brolund told reporters.

One of the largest blazes, the so-called Gray Fire near Spokane in eastern Washington, began around noon Friday and a few hours later had surged through 4.7 square miles

Canadian officials in the Northwest Territories have ordered residents of Yellowknife to evacuate as wildfires burn just outside the city’s borders.

Firefighters worked to keep open the only route out of the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as a wildfire moved closer to the city of 20,000.

Search and rescue teams continue to comb through the wreckage of a devastating wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, for victims and survivors.

Canadian officias say air evacuations were to begin for people in the path of wildfires in the Northwest Territories as the blazes neared Yellowknife, a city of 20,000 people.