Wildfire News

Chino Valley Review Chino Valley Fire crews responded to a wildfire that quickly spread to structures on Sunday afternoon.

The St. Michael Fire Department log for May 9-15, 2013: May 10 Motor vehicle accident on Highway 241 in front of Kwik Trip and were cancelled en-route. Medical call in the 40 block of St.

A Northeast Cobb man has been arrested in connection with a brush fire behind an Acworth business.

SPRINGTOWN Authorities closed down a marijuana growing operation in a Springtown home Sunday afternoon after firefighters responded to an accidental fire at the residence, the Parker County sheriff said Monday.

A plane drops fire retardant material on a three-alarm brush fire near Ivy Drive in Orinda, Calif., on Monday May 20, 2013.

Water-dropping helicopters were brought in to assist ground crews trying to contain the fire -- first reported shortly after noon Monday -- as it moved through heavy brush in the hills above East Harvard Road and East Walnut Avenue.

People watch as a brush fire burns Sunday, May 19, 2013, at the Whitney Ranch Recreational Area, precariously close to an apartment complex in Henderson.

Just over two years ago, firefighters from across the country were battling the biggest forest fire ever seen in Bracknell.

Record high temperatures in the upper 80s and lower 90s are set across Lower Michigan from the 16th to the 28th.

The Reno Fire Department is stressing the importance of residents creating defensible space around their homes to lessen the threat of wildfires.

A Concord woman was arrested Sunday evening on suspicion of arson after police say she used a lighter to set fire to a hillside that in turn sparked a four-acre burn.

Heidi Schewel with the Forest Service says a brush fire is burning about five miles east of the Nogales Airport.

Residents of the Upper Skyway neighborhood participated in the Wildland Fire Evacuation Drill Saturday to prepare for the possibility of a wildfire this summer.

At about 4:45 p.m. Friday, the Eagle River Fire Protection District was dispatched to a report of a wildland fire in Avon located at the 2500 block of Old Trail Road in the Wildridge.

A firefighter hosed down a still-hot burned area of the Grand Fire in Kern County on Friday.

Two of them broke out Friday. Around one this Friday a fire broke out near southbound Interstate 5 in Castaic.

Mike Whitaker, left, and Andrew Fullingim watch smoke from a brush fire from Lake Hughes in Castaic, Calif., Friday, May 17, 2013.

"They learn exactly who they respond to, who their boss is, what to do and the way the system works," said Jan Amen, Texas A&M Forest Service, PIO.

An L.A. County camp crew starts to get out as flames roar out of a canyon toward them during a brush fire that started along the southbound lanes of the I-5. The LA County Fire Department and the Angeles National Forest Service are fighting the fire that has burned through 600 acres.

Introducing any fire in the outdoors is strongly discouraged today. The DNR will be suspending all burning permits and citizens should check with local fire officials for any additional restrictions in place.