Celebrity chef Guy Fieri brought some much-needed Christmas cheer to Hawaii restaurant workers impacted by the August Maui wildfires on Thursday, in the form of $1.2 million.
Reviews are still underway as to what happened in Lahaina earlier this month, but everyday, more information emerges about the likely factors that led to the deaths of what expected to be hundreds of residents in Maui, including many children.
Greek fire department officials arrested two men on Saturday for allegedly deliberately starting wildfires blamed for 21 deaths.
The wildfires that have ravaged the Spanish tourist island of Tenerife were a result of arson, a local official has admitted.
M. Kaleo Manuel, the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) deputy director of water management, has been reassigned pending an investigation of his role in a decision to delay allocating water to landowners during the Maui fire.
Authorities in Hawaii say a fire that swept through a picturesque town in Maui this week has killed at least 89 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire of the past century.
Maui’s famous 150-year-old banyan tree was severely scorched by wildfires ravaging the Hawaiian island this week.
At least six people have been killed in a wildfire that has razed the Hawaiian town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, officials said Wednesday, as desperate residents jumped into the ocean in a bid to escape the fast-moving flames.
Amidst apocalyptic news coverage, Greece’s climate change minister admitted that the majority of the wildfires were a result of arson.
Some 19,000 people have been evacuated from the Greek island of Rhodes as wildfires continued burning for a sixth day.
A blaze burning on the Greek island of Rhodes forced authorities to order an evacuation of four locations, including two resorts.
A brush fire on Interstate 5 in Seattle, Washington, ignited early Friday reportedly at an encampment before burning up trees in its wake.
The poor air quality in places like New York due to the ongoing Canadian wildfires has forced the cancelation of top Broadway musicals like Hamilton and the Hollywood writers strike.
A 54-year-old man was arrested by police for allegedly causing at least 19 forest fires in the province of Cáceres over the last two years.
Bushfires have reportedly engulfed “several mountains” in Chongqing, a municipality within southern China’s Sichuan province, in recent days, the Global Times reported on Monday, noting that the wildfires have merely exacerbated an ongoing heatwave and drought across most of China’s southern region that began in June.
German police have identified four shisha-smoking Iraqi migrants as suspects in a forest fire in Saxony that took place last month and devastated the Saxon Switzerland National Park.
A 37-year-old volunteer fireman, forestry officer, and former deputy mayor in France has admitted he was behind several fires.
French investigators probing the suspected deliberate lighting of a raging wildfire have detained a man for questioning.
Firefighters in Greece on Sunday were battling a wildfire for a second day in two suburbs of the capital of Athens.
A ‘shaman’ in California accused of igniting a wildfire claimed it began by accident and while she boiled bear urine to consume, according to the New York Post.
Larry Elder, Republican candidate for governor of California, said black and Hispanic Californians want to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).
Massive wildfires outside Jerusalem prompted the evacuation of several communities in the area, and caused the government to call for international aid.
Raging wildfires in Sicily and Calabria are being blamed on arsonists, with one Italian mayor offering a five-year tax exemption to those who can identify any of the alleged arsonists behind the fires.
As wildfires rage across much of Greece, police say they are investigating possible arson attacks that may linked to fires in Athens and in Ilia.
Increasingly sprawling wildfires throughout Turkey inched dangerously close to the Kemerkoy Thermal Power Plant, prompting government officials to claim Thursday they had contained it.
A striking photograph showed a California firefighter saving an American flag despite dangerous flames from the Dixie wildfire.
Smoke and heat generated by a huge wildfire in southeastern Oregon are creating massive “fire clouds” above the blaze.
(AFP) — Cyprus said a deadly forest fire that was the worst to hit the island in decades was close to being brought under control Sunday after water bombing by Greek and Israeli aircraft.
A wildfire consumed an entire village in the Canadian province of British Columbia on Thursday after the small town recorded Canada’s highest-ever temperature of 121.2º Fahrenheit earlier this week, the Vancouver Sun reported on Friday.
A wildfire that began on the slopes of Table Mountain reached the mountainside campus of the University of Cape Town on Sunday, damaging several buildings on campus, including a library that housed rare and irreplaceable African books.
A firefighter rescued a mountain lion cub Wednesday from an area where the Zogg Wildfire burned through in Redding, California.
A California firefighter died this week while battling a wildfire officials said was sparked by a device used at a gender reveal party.
A gender reveal party was blamed by officials Monday for sparking one of several wildfires now raging across the state of California.
A waitress plans to pay it forward after she got the biggest tip she had ever seen Tuesday at a restaurant in Sacramento, California.
A new wildfire erupted Wednesday in wind-whipped Southern California, forcing the evacuation of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and nearby homes, as both ends of the state struggled with blazes, dangerously gusty weather and deliberate blackouts.
GEYSERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A wind-driven wildfire has forced evacuations north of San Francisco in Sonoma County.
San Diego real estate developer and restaurant owner Bob Wilson personally distributed the checks to students and faculty alike on Tuesday.
An off-duty border patrol officer’s gender-reveal stunt at a family party went haywire after it ignited a wildfire that caused $8 million in damage to Arizona’s Coronado National Forest, according to a video released by the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday.
Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea announced the official death toll in a statement on Monday night, with more than 200 still unaccounted for.
(AFP) — The deadliest and most destructive fire in California’s history was finally brought totally under control by firefighters, more than two weeks after it erupted, authorities said on Sunday. “#CampFire … is now 100% contained,” Cal Fire, the state
