They can worsen fire conditions, spread smoke over long distances ... On August 8, 2019, a NASA DC-8 was flown through a pyrocumulonimbus cloud near eastern Washington, to better understand ...

NBC4’s Robert Kovacik offered to keep the Pacific Palisades homeowner’s artwork safe as he evacuated the deadly flames on a ...

Under a red flag warning, any fires that do start are more likely to spread at a rapid rate behind strong winds. Flying ...

Smoke exposure from the wildfires can have lasting impacts on our health, especially to our lungs. "So with repeated exposure, the first symptom would be a chronic cough and then after having the ...

When the Eaton Fire flared up Jan. 9, flames climbed to the summit of Mount Wilson northeast of LA. What happened next was a fire prevention success.

Firefighters responded to a brush fire Wednesday north of Los Angeles on a day of red flag warnings for parts of Southern California.

He screamed for help, causing a Washington Post reporter and ... So the firefighter took off toward the smoke. Colvin’s house wasn’t on fire just yet, but it was about to be.

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (KABC) -- Long after the wildfires are extinguished, air quality experts say the threat of toxic dust could remain for months, even years. One local doctor who lost his ...

We all know the air quality is precarious right now, but a picture by the EPA shows just how extreme it can be if your area is affected by wildfire smoke. On the left is a new H-VAC filter ...

Flames and smoke from a fire fill the sky at the Moss Landing Power Plant Thursday Jan. 16, 2025 in Moss Landing, Calif. (Shmuel Thaler /The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP) California ...

And unlike California’s usual wildland fires — which have occurred in mostly forested, sparsely populated areas creating typical smoke and particulate matter pollution — the public health ...

He and his family have been through this before, he said, adding that monitoring nearby wildfire smoke is “part of life” in the fire-prone region. His family was later put under mandatory ...