Retired firefighter Bobbie Scopa describes the differences between various types of fires, including wildland fires, and how ...

Mr. Davis’s ideas were shocking when the essay appeared, but the events of recent years have won a lot of people over to his ...

About a third of US homes are in a wildland-urban interface, a kind of high-risk area where development meets open land.

Both suggest that we have more control over fire disasters than we think ... of vegetation in rugged terrain is susceptible ...

In 1955, the Ventu Park wildfire raged through the canyons above Malibu, burning nearly 14,000 acres and eight homes. The same area saw two large fires burn hillsides and homes over the next three ...

Fires in Los Angeles aren’t “just some apocalyptic, cataclysmic act of God,” Dr. Jennifer Marlon, research scientist and ...

CHEYENNE — A fire severely damaged Laramie County Fire Authority Station 74 on Saturday, destroying three wildland firefighting ... damage and appeared to burn internally for a while before ...

After fierce winds whipped fire out of brush-covered hills ... but it does often have sustained winds of 30 mph and gusts over 40 mph, which can vault burning embers great distances.

The L.A. wildfires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing ...