Wildfires

Firefighters are putting out the remnants of two wildfires on a Sicilian island that forced fashion designer Giorgio Armani and dozens more to flee vacation villas overnight.

Dozens of firefighters are battling a large wildfire in a rural area of Hawaii’s Big Island. No homes are threatened. Gusts and arid conditions are making it difficult to contain the blaze. The fire started in the western reaches of the U.S. Army’s Pohakuloa Training Area, which is above the town of Waikoloa and between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea...

Firefighters say they’re making progress as they battle California’s largest and deadliest wildfire of the year.

Deputies found a jar of marijuana in his belongings, but he didn’t appear to be high, they said.

Two bodies were found inside a charred vehicle in a driveway in the wildfire zone of a raging California blaze that is among several burning in the western U.S. amid hot, dry and gusty conditions that boost the danger that the fires will keep growing, officials said Monday.

The House has approved wide-ranging legislation aimed at helping communities in the West cope with increasingly severe wildfires and drought — fueled by climate change — that have caused billions of dollars of damage to homes and businesses in recent years. The measure combines 49 separate bills and would increase firefighter pay and benefits; boost resiliency and mitigation projects for...

Firefighters are battling a blaze in central California which has already burned nearly 17,000 acres and was only 10% contained as of Monday morning.

Alaska is burning this year in ways rarely or ever seen. So far this year more than 530 wildfires have burned an area the size of Connecticut and the typically worst of the fire season lays ahead.

Major wildfires in Europe are starting earlier in the year, becoming more frequent, doing more damage and getting harder to stop.

Firefighters battled wildfires raging out of control in Spain and France, including one whose flames reached two popular Atlantic beaches.

The Calf Canyon/Hermits Creek fire has burned more than 341,000 acres and destroyed hundreds of homes in New Mexico.

President Joe Biden has signed off on giving federal wildland firefighters a hefty raise for the next two fiscal years. The move announced Tuesday affects more than 16,000 firefighters and comes as much of the West braces for a difficult wildfire season. Pay raises for the federal firefighters had been included in last year’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill, but they...

President Joe Biden says he is escalating federal assistance for New Mexico as it faces its largest wildfire in recorded state history.

President Joe Biden is visiting New Mexico to talk about his administration’s efforts to tackle wildfires as residents smolder with anger over how federal officials allowed planned burns to spread out of control, leading to the largest blaze in recorded state history.

Across the country, more than two-thirds of the homes and businesses destroyed by wildfires are in the “wildland urban interface,” or WUI, a transitional zone between developed areas and wilderness. LX News climate storyteller Chase Cain explains why the area is more hazardous and how to see if your home is one of the 72 million facing some level of...

In Southern California, a wildfire erupted Wednesday in the coastal community of Laguna Niguel and burned more than 20 homes, many of them multimillion-dollar mansions.

Firefighters in New Mexico’s Rocky Mountain foothills are excavating new firebreaks and clearing brush to keep a massive wildfire from destroying more homes and pine forests. Nearly 300 structures including homes, commercial buildings and barns have already been destroyed. Officials said Monday that the tally will increase as more of the damage is surveyed. More residents were told to evacuate...

Residents of a northern New Mexico city tried to recapture a sense of normalcy as their rural neighbors hunkered down amid predictions of extreme fire conditions.

Firefighters have slowed the advance of the largest wildfire in the U.S. as heavy winds relented, while Biden’s disaster declaration brings new financial resources.

Residents of the small northeast New Mexico town have been watching aircraft disappear into a giant plume of smoke to fight a growing wildfire that has burned hundreds of square miles.