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Wildfires in several western states have stirred embers of the "Sagebrush Rebellion," as ranchers and politicians have criticized federal agencies, the courts and environmentalists over policies they say are contributing to the fires.
Logging dead trees after a wildfire and planting new ones can make future fires worse, at least for a decade or two while the young trees create a volatile source of fuel, scientists found in a study that contradicts conventional practices.
Residents had only minutes to get out of their homes — or try to get back to them to rescue animals — when a fast-moving but short-lived wildfire raced through an exclusive seaside neighborhood leaving ashes in the footprints of mansions.
As families planned funerals for five firefighters killed by a wind-swept wildfire a week ago, authorities marched a suspect into a courtroom to charge him with murder and arson — crimes that carry a possible death sentence.
Investigators looking for the arsonist who set a wildfire that killed four firefighters and burned 63 square miles interviewed convicted arsonists Tuesday and picked over the spot where the blaze started.
While crews made progress on a wildfire that killed four firefighters, evacuees began returning to their homes — often to find nothing left.
As flames roared through the canyons of Southern California, authorities increased the reward to $500,000 Friday for the arrest of the arsonist responsible for the deaths of four firefighters in the nation's worst such tragedy in five years.
Firefighters battling a newly merged pair of wildfires feared the blaze could create disastrous weather Saturday and hinder progress in blocking the fire from reaching the populated San Bernardino Mountains.
Firefighters battled a 1,500-acre wildfire Friday that had burned at least four buildings and forced the evacuation of about 30 homes near this scenic northern Arizona town.
A 2,000-acre wildfire near a small northern Arizona community burned a handful of buildings Thursday and forced the evacuation of about 30 homes before moving off into the wilderness, officials said.
A Southern California wildfire driven by Santa Ana winds ate through 1,200 acres of wilderness Monday near Orange County suburbs, forcing evacuation of 1,500 homes.
Residents of more than 2,000 homes evacuated because of a wildfire were allowed to return Tuesday as an army of firefighters worked to keep the blaze corralled in rugged land just east of Orange County suburbs.
A Southern California wildfire driven by Santa Ana winds ate through 1,200 acres of wilderness Monday near Orange County suburbs, forcing evacuation of 1,500 homes.
About 50 firefighters battled a quickly moving blaze early Monday at Cleveland National Forest.
Far from dying down, as California's infernos will, America's shout-fest/blame-fest/hate-fest will continue at least until next year's presidential election - something fires, floods and famines seemingly can't change.
When the residents of San Diego County went to bed last Sunday night, all were gripped by the news of raging wildfires in Orange county and one rapidly spreading fire in Witch Creek, a town just northeast of San Diego. By Monday morning, all of southern California was on alert.
FEMA has truly learned the lessons of Katrina. Even its handling of the media has improved dramatically. For example, as the California wildfires raged Tuesday, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy administrator, had a 1 p.m. news briefing.
Washington Wire was a little stunned to receive a press release today hawking disgraced former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown as "available for interviews" to discuss the wildfire crisis in Southern California.
When this Azola couple got back from their honeymoon, they had about an hour of matrimonial bliss before being forced to flee as their house was engulfed in flames.
Calif. fires burned, copters grounded By AARON C. DAVIS and MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writers Fri Oct 26, 7:22 AM ET
Wildfires raging in Southern California over the last several days have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate. A dozen or more fires have burned more than 500 square miles in an area extending from Los Angeles to San Diego.
The hearing considers scientific assessments of the impacts of global climate change on wildfire activity in the United States.
An estimated 1,500 homes burned and about 500,000 people were evacuated as some 17 blazes turned blue October skies brown and orange across Southern California.
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This is the blog with information about the fires in the San Bernardino mountains. Let's hope they can begin to contain this sometime soon.
Currently, fires are raging across Southern California and thousands of residents are trying to access the latest updated news about evacuations, weather conditions, and active firelines. On any normal day, this would be a simple task.
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This will either be a very short slice of mountain life or an epic tale of evacuation, resettling and rebuilding. Having been through the latter, I hope it's the former. Fawnskin, CA 3:13 PM A 5-acre wildfire is burning approximately 3 miles outside of town.
Authorities discovered a 25-acre wildfire Wednesday afternoon burning about eight miles east of Bozeman.
Dry grasses, cheatgrass and wheatgrass help ignite pinyon pines and juniper trees. Cheatgrass is the gasoline of wildfires. It springs back faster in a burned-out area than perennial native grasses and, each year, the cheatgrass comes back in greater and greater numbers.
Weeks into a wildfire season that has already burned parts of Catalina Island, Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe, swaths of California's flammable national forests are some days protected by nothing more than luck.
There is an audio file of 11:15 a.m. news conference attached to this story. It updates figures previously given.
A fire so monstrous and swift it created its own windstorm left firefighters racing Friday to finish evacuating hundreds of North Florida homes and assembling a massive fleet of bulldozers.
Forest ranger Mark VanEvery told hundreds of people gathered in Grand Marais that no additional structures were lost overnight "that we know of," although officials are still trying to assess that.
The citizens of Los Angeles are deeply concerned after serious wildfires in the Griffith Park and Hollywood Hills have destroyed vast swaths of urban wilderness and killed or displaced thousands of animals during their breeding season.
Firefighters from three counties battled a fast-moving fire Saturday in the high-desert town of Hesperia, a blaze that by nightfall had consumed 1,400 acres and prompted the evacuation of about 500 residents from more than 200 homes.
Massive wildfire blazes through the north rim of the Grand Canyon a few years ago. This footage was used in an anti-smoking promotional ad, which is a little odd, but the fire footage in the end is pretty awesome.
Erosion from hillsides left barren by the devastating Hayman wildfire of 2002 is dumping tons of mud, ash and decomposed granite into Cheesman Reservoir and creating expensive problems for Denver's water utility.
CABAZON, Calif. (AP) - A wind-driven wildfire near Palm Springs engulfed a fire engine Thursday, killing three firefighters, and up to 400 people were trapped in a recreational vehicle park when flames blocked the only road out, officials said.
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