On a windy afternoon last week, the Anchorage Fire Department's wildfire division chief stood at the edge of a parking lot off Dowling Road, looking at a blond field of dry grass, a stand of stunted ...

In 2024, Oregon had a historic wildfire season where more than 1.7 million acres burned. Gov. Tina Kotek called a special session in November 2024 to obtain funding for firefighters and vendors.

BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A fast-moving wildfire burning in New Jersey on Tuesday forced thousands of people to evacuate and ...

The Israeli military on Saturday issued an immediate evacuation warning to the residents of the southern neighborhoods of Khan Younis, after three rockets were launched from the area at Israeli ...

The maps show the risk of a wildfire caused by equipment owned by the state’s three major investor-owned utilities; they are separate from Cal Fire’s maps that show the potential for fires based on ...

Apr. 9—New state fire maps have moved many Ross residents into a greater wildfire hazard zone. The Town Council voted unanimously on Thursday to adopt an ordinance designating the fire hazard ...

Police investigate the scene outside the State Police barracks on Route 9 in Malta after a man who opened fire with a high-powered rifle outside the barracks died Wednesday afternoon after being ...

Maps also consider “terrain-specific hazards, sundowner wind patterns and evacuation complexities,” fire agencies said in a joint statement Wednesday. The City of Santa Barbara will be merging ...

Evacuation orders had previously been lifted. In South Carolina, the Table Rock Fire and the Persimmon Ridge Fire were the two major wildfires in the state. The Persimmon Ridge Fire "saw only ...

The Washington State Library, which operates a reading room in Olympia and specialized branches like the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, distributes grant money to Institutional ...

The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance to adopt fire hazard severity zones recommended by the State Fire Marshal at Tuesday’s board meeting. CalFire’s map ...

Nick Brown, Washington’s attorney general, has accused Sheriff Wagner in a lawsuit of sharing inmate information with federal immigration agents in defiance of a state law meant to limit ...