Wildfires

The EPA’s AirNow.gov site showed cities including Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, Ohio, had “very unhealthy air”…
/ June 29, 2023
As smoke from wildfires in Canada blankets the northeastern U.S., experts discuss air quality alert safety.
/ June 8, 2023
The future of a historic Black community in Northern California remains uncertain after a wildfire devastated the small town.
/ October 10, 2022
The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S.
/ July 26, 2022
The Adkins Avenue fire has been burning in Bay County since Friday, forcing the evacuation of at least 600 homes.
/ March 6, 2022
The Monterey County Sheriff’s office ordered evacuations in a sparsely populated area between Carmel and Big Sur because of the fire.
/ January 22, 2022
Doctors, nurses, and hospitals increasingly are seeing patients sickened by climate-related problems, from overheating to smoke inhalation from wildfires and even infectious diseases.
The air was so dry that some of the water dropped by aircraft evaporated before reaching the ground, said fire information officer Lisa Cox.
/ July 10, 2021
A smoky wildfire in a LA canyon community gained strength Sunday as about a thousand residents remained under evacuation orders.
/ May 16, 2021
California fire officials said the state hit the astonishing milestone Sunday with about two months remaining in the fire season.
Northern California’s wine country was on fire again Monday as strong winds fanned flames in the already scorched region.
/ September 29, 2020
Relief groups are putting evacuees into hotels to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, stringing up shower curtains to separate people.
Crews continued to battle wildfires that have killed at least 33 victims from California to Washington state.
Diminishing winds and rising humidity helped firefighters battling deadly blazes in Oregon and California, but dozens are still missing.
When it comes to California wildfires, it now takes days, not decades, to produce what had been seen as a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.
/ September 10, 2020
A California wildfire that is raging between parts of San Francisco and Sacramento is one of the state’s worst, killing six people.
/ August 22, 2020
Lizzo thegrio
As the wildfires blaze across Australia, signifying a global natural catastrophe, Lizzo wants to spread awareness of how important this event really is
/ January 6, 2020