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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A boater was hospitalized after two yachts caught fire and sank at a Long Island marina early Wednesday, officials said.

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 ...

Dubbed the Hughes Fire, the wildfire broke out Wednesday and went from 50-100 acres to 9,000 acres in hours, threatening ...

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 ...

Wildfire evacuees tend to experience “evacuation fatigue” when they’re unable to return home due to the danger of flare-ups, toxic smoke and hidden hazards like debris flows, fallen trees ...

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 ...