Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after killing at least one person, damaging dozens of homes and prompting evacuation orders for thousands of residents, fire officials said. The roughly 1,800-hectare (4,500-acre) fire has been burning for days in Ofunato, a…
Firefighters in Cape Town on Wednesday were battling a wildfire that broke out in Table Mountain National Park and spread overnight toward the city, local authorities said. The wildfire has burned for several days in the Newlands area, high in the mountainous slopes of the park, but strong gusting winds pushed it toward Cape Town’s…
The Trump administration has halted funding for federal programs to reduce wildfire risk in western US states and has frozen hiring of seasonal firefighters as part of broad cuts to government spending, according to organizations impacted by the moves. The reduction in resources for wildfire prevention comes a month after devastating blazes in Los Angeles…
The Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, has announced that the district will repair or rebuild the three schools damaged in the Los Angeles wildfire and will also renovate all district campuses to be more natural disaster resilient. He further stated that the district will allocate $2.2 billion for these efforts, as reported…
Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found. But the myriad of causes that go into the still smoldering fires are complex, so the level of global warming’s fingerprints on weeks of burning…
Australia’s southeast sweltered in a heatwave on Monday, raising the bushfire risk and prompting authorities to issue fire bans for several parts of Victoria state. The extreme temperatures brought back memories of the catastrophic 2019-2020 “Black Summer” that saw fires destroy an area the size of Turkey, killing 33 people and billions of animals. On…
Firefighters fought to maintain the upper hand on a huge and rapidly moving wildfire that swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles and resulted in more than 50,000 people being put under evacuation orders or warnings. The Hughes Fire broke out late Wednesday morning and in less than a day had charred nearly 16…
Two weeks after massive wildfires left behind a trail of destruction in Los Angeles, a new brush fire has led to evacuation orders for over 50,000 people in the US state. The fresh blaze, named the Hughes fire, erupted on Wednesday morning and has trampled over 9,000 acres of land and is currently under zero…
A new wildfire that broke out north of Los Angeles on Wednesday rapidly spread to more than 8,000 acres (32 square km), fuelled by strong winds and dry brush, forcing mandatory evacuation orders for more than 19,000 people. The Hughes fire about 50 miles (80 km) north of Los Angeles further taxed firefighters in the…
NEW YORK: Two major fires in and around Los Angeles are burning for a third week, destroying more than 14,000 structures and displacing tens of thousands. In the midst of the devastation, relief efforts continue across communities and industries — with musicians rallying to several causes, notably the FireAid benefit concert. Billie Eilish, Jelly Roll,…