A single ember, unremarkable in its origin, finds its way onto a rooftop—silent, unnoticed—until it catches the wind. It ...

In January, 2025, six wildfires broke out and spread rapidly across the greater Los Angeles region in California, USA. Fanned by the strong Santa Ana winds, these raging infernos have caused ...

A real-time look at how some residents experienced the Palisades and Eaton fires in Altadena, Sierra Madre and the Pacific ...

Nashville firefighters said when they got to Hillwood Apartments on Post Road, the building started to collapse in on itself.

Firefighters from nine departments battled the blaze for nine hours Friday night in freezing temperatures, North West ...

The Maryland Department of the Environment issued an air quality alert after a fire at a County recycling plant began ...

The Hughes fire, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Los Angeles, sent huge flames and plumes of smoke over a hilly area and further taxed firefighters who have managed to bring two major fires in the ...

Steven Shaw tells of the Milwaukee Fire Department's evolution into one of the finest fire service organizations in the ...

Her expertise lies in atmospheric modeling, environmental analytics, big data and cloud computing—fields that intersect closely with wildfire behavior, smoke prediction and exposure analysis.

As the smoke clears from devastating Los Angeles wildfires, efforts to clean up the affected areas are being complicated by burnt-out electric and hybrid vehicles and home-battery storage systems.

“Everything in the households got burned — cars, metal pipes, plastics.” Wildfire smoke is toxic. Burning trees and shrubs produce very fine particulate matter, known by the shorthand PM 2 ...

LOS ANGELES – The explosion of smoke and ash that erupted from two wildfires was beyond belief. In the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, as the Eaton fire engulfed homes and businesses ...