Wildfire News

Cape Girardeau firefighters are fighting a fire in some woods in the Juden Creek Conservation Area.

Perth scientist Lachie McCaw has been awarded the top prize at the inaugural Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre Awards for Excellence.

AS PARTS of Victoria prepared for the first severe bushfire conditions of the season this weekend, authorities came under attack yesterday after they lost control of a planned burn on the Mornington Peninsula.

IRONTON, Ohio Firefighters are trying to contain a wildfire that has spread through an estimated 70 acres in Ohio's only national forest.

More than 70 acres of marsh on Rush Lake was destroyed in a vegetation fire in the town of Nepeuskun Sunday afternoon.

A fire leveled a large home in Colorado Springs' western foothills this evening, sending firefighters on a race to prevent flames from spreading to the surrounding woods and fields and evacuating 24 homes.

A brush fire in Fayette County has burned roughly 40 acres according to fire officials.

Crews are working to control a brush fire in Alafia River State Park that has burned through 500 acres of land in eastern Hillsborough County.

Firefighters on Sunday contained a 100-acre wildfire burning east of Hewlett Gulch Road and Red Feather Lakes Road that started on private property.

Police are investigating the cause of a brush fire that burned about three acres of a canyon where homeless people sleep near San Diego State University Saturday night.

A 23-year-old man shot by police last week at a Waikele KFC drive-through is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow after his release from the hospital Friday.

With warm temperatures and breezy conditions Saturday, several brush fires kept fire departments around North Central West Virginia busy.

The Fire Department will use these funds to hire 10 individuals for a wildland firefighting handcrew.

Nevada and California congressional delegations have introduced legislation to extend the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act and continue efforts to combat invasive species, reduce wildfire risks and protect the lake's clarity.

Firefighters are attempting to stop the spread of a wildfire that sparked in a field across from Coronado High School in Colorado Springs Friday afternoon.

A Chino Hills neighborhood became the site of a voluntary evacuation this afternoon as a Diamond Bar brush fire edged close to the San Bernardino County line.

NASHVILLE - With the drought conditions of the past couple of years washed away by above average rainfall this summer and autumn, the wildfire season has begun in Tennessee.

SURVIVAL: FESA have released a Prepare. Act. Survive document, advising people how to survive a bushfire.

The Flint Hill Fire Department will hold an election for the Board of Directors on from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

Bobby Wright thought he had buried Smoky. The U.S. Forest Service worker had watched helplessly as a frenzied, massive forest fire turned toward the trailer where he lived with Smoky, a 6-month-old mutt, 20 other dogs and a rabbit named Bernie.