Fire

This is another amazing but terrifying phenomenon. Sao Paulo was plunged into darkness in the middle of the day Monday as a massive plume of smoke from...

After being devastated by wildfires last year, California has gone through several months of being relatively fire-free. But as we head into the heat of late summer, the state...

A wildfire sweeping across Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands led to the evacuation of 4,000 people on Sunday. And officials warned tackling the blaze was being complicated...

After less than a month, the devastating wildfires in Russia have burned down more than three million hectares of forest. And it doesn't seem to be finished yet.

Several people have been killed after an apparent arson attack destroyed a building at Kyoto Animation, one of Japan’s most renowned anime studios on July 18, 2019. NHK...

The Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise, California, last year. Since then, the community has struggled to rebuild. In fact, more than 90 percent of Paradise residents never returned.

A brush fire of 1,200 hectares burns out of control through island’s central valley. Thousands of people on Maui have been ordered to evacuate two towns in the...

As of June 18, more than 9,000 people were out of their homes due to wildfires in Alberta, including about 700 from the Paddle Prairie Métis Settlement, who were forced to leave...

When Timothy Ingalsbee thinks back on his days in the 1980s and '90s fighting wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, he remembers the adventure of jumping out of a helicopter into the wilderness,...

There are currently 21 wildfires burning in Alberta. Seven of them are burning "out of control." Smoke billowing from the destructive fires - Chuckegg Creek Wildfire (692,000 acres) and...

One week ago, I wrote an article about the Chuckegg Creek Fire in Northern Alberta near the town of High Level going out of control. At that time it had already burned...

Firefighters managed to contain by Saturday the wildfires that had raged throughout Israel the previous days. Some 3,500 people were evacuated from towns and dozens of homes were destroyed during the...

The Chuckegg Creek wildfire is burning out of control in the High Level Forest Area, to the southwest and west of the town of High Level, in Alberta, Canada. The fire has...

Wildfires are blazing on about 58,000 hectares (145,000 acres) throughout the eastern reaches of Russia, threatening small villages and forcing the evacuation of children and senior citizens. Huge...

Insurance claims have topped $12 billion for the November wildfires in California, making them the most expensive in state history. The figure released Wednesday by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara covers the fire...

A raging fire ripped through a leading Russian missile-making plant in Siberia on April 26, 2019. Massive Fire Rages Out Of Control At Russian Missile Plant. Picture via...

Hundreds of people have had to leave their homes in Norway as emergency services try to extinguish forest fires raging in the south of the country. Some 148 homes were evacuated around...

Fires are going out of control due to strong winds in Russia. Several villages have almost completely burned down during steppe fires in Transbaikalia. Just on April 19, 2019, more than 240...

Yes, indeed! This is terrible! According to photos and videos from Paris, a huge fire is consuming the spire and roof of the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral. Over the years, the cathedral...

Impoverished towns in the shadow of Mount Shasta. Rustic Gold Rush cities in the Sierra Nevada foothills. High-dollar resort communities on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Ritzy Los Angeles County suburbs. They...

A giant forest fire swept across swathes of South Korea Friday, as authorities declared a rare national disaster, deploying 900 fire engines and tens of thousands of personnel to bring it under...

We are not even into April, but we’ve had 50 brush fires across Washington just this week. Firefighters usually start getting busy fighting brush fires and wildfires starting in June, so the...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide wildfire emergency Friday, citing “extreme peril” to life and property, in an effort to speed up forest clearing measures. There have only been two other...

Firefighters have given chilling advice to residents as a fire rips through east Victoria - as authorities warn the bushfires are 'worse' than the Black Saturday bushfires almost a decade ago. Lightning...

A major blaze has broken out in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history. The fire hit a forest some 20 kilometers away from...

In central regions of Chile, a curfew has been imposed due to forest fires going out-of-control in urban areas. The Chilean has already killed 2 last week. Two days ago, 5 fires...

A huge fire blazed through 600 wooden homes built on stilts next to a river in Brazil's Amazon region overnight, decimating a poor area of the city of Manaus.

This is another terrifying video of the Paradise tragedy... A big picture overview of the devastation and a better understanding of how this fire destroyed this town.

Nearly 10,000 people have been told to flee immediately as more than 140 fast-moving blazes tear through Queensland amid the state's bushfire crisis. Thousands of people were evacuated from communities in central Queensland after...

Smoke from California wildfires spread to New York, 3,000 miles away with haze envelopping Washington DC and other east coast cities. Incredible! The US east coast has been provided a firsthand reminder of the deadly...

This is an interesting article I have found on the Someone's Bones website. It talks about the cruel possibility that the governement is maybe... or probably... concealing the death toll of the massive and...

Battling a wildfire is akin to precision high-speed landscaping. That's why crews fighting massive fires - maybe also now in California - sometimes have dusted off a somewhat extraordinary piece of equipment: the...

The destructive fire passed through the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), a federal Superfund site in the Simi Hills that was the site of the worst nuclear meltdown in US history in 1959. While...

The smoke released by the California wildfires are toxic... And for people relaxing on the beach in Santa Monica, it is like if they were watching a volcanic eruption. This video shows the smoke asphyxiating...

In an unusual move, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) has issued a Winter Spare the Air Alert from Friday all the way through Monday because of heavy smoke and particulates drifting...

Fast-moving wildfires prompted tens of thousands of evacuations in both Northern and Southern California, including the entire beachside city of Malibu, sending residents fleeing for their lives on short notice. The largest inferno, sparked...

Brent Larson awoke at 4 a.m. to the shake and rumble of what felt like a freight train rolling down the hill toward his Santa Barbara County home. He leaped from his bed and...

This is amazing! This river has just taken 10 meters in height in just a few days of rain during unprecedented storms in Italy. Thousands of citizens have been evacuated in the Treviso area after...

This year’s record winter heat and low rainfall has not only led to severe drought, it has prompted many areas around Queensland, NSW and Victoria to announce their earliest total fire ban in history. In...

The wildfire season has no end in California as new fires breaks out and grow rapidly across the state. Firefighters are battling a new round of wildfires in California even as battles against earlier...