Three months ago, I worked the fireline in New York’s Sterling Forest, fighting what’s commonly known as the Jennings Creek fire. I was only on the line for a day, but rotating crews battled ...

The Great Chicago Fire? Right date, wrong event. I am referring to the Peshtigo Fire, a forest fire that destroyed 1.2 million acres and more than a dozen towns in Wisconsin. A mass grave in the ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Thousands of Southern California residents are reeling from the devastation left behind after a series of fires erupted in the Los Angeles area, with two major blazes ...

Fireweed grows among forest fire tree snags in B.C.'s Kootenay National Park. James Gabbert / iStock / Getty Images Plus The study out of Oregon sparked a public controversy over the merits of ...

Martin County Fire Rescue and the Florida Forest Service fought the fire with help from water drops by a Martin County Sheriff's Office helicopter.

A former elementary school site in Tarrys that has bounced around in the development proposal arena for almost 20 years has ...

The legislation empowers leaders to use new scientific methods to assess those wildfire-prone areas, and employ various forest management tools, including tree thinning, prescribed burning ...

Multiple fires on Monday night in a busy area of South Carolina has prompted arson investigations, according to the Forest Acres Police Department. Police are investigating six fires that happened ...

Besides Cal Fire, multiple agencies have dropped fire retardant and water, including the U.S. Forest Service, the Los Angeles and Ventura county fire departments, the city and the National Guard.

Unlike forest fires in other parts of the state, blazes in coastal southern California burn in grass and brush. This is an important distinction because year-to-year variations in the ...

As firefighters continue to battle the blazes that have destroyed thousands of structures in the Los Angeles area, fire investigators are already trying to figure out how the conflagrations began.