Los Angeles, August 4 (IANS) A wildfire raging across the US states of California and Nevada since July 28 has so far spread to 94,009 acres of land.
The fire, dubbed York Fire, was first reported on private
CEDAR RIDGE, Ariz., October 5 (Reuters): Two decades into a severe drought on the Navajo reservation, the open range around Maybelle Sloan’s sheep farm stretches out in a brown expanse of earth and s
MOLALLA, (Oregon), September 17 (Reuters): Nicole West steered her bulldozer through the smoldering forest, pushing logs into the underbrush and away from the wildfires ripping through Oregon's Ca
PORTLAND, Ore., September 13 (Reuters): Crews were to resume searching for the dead on Sunday among blackened ruins left by massive wildfires raging in three western U.S. states, where millions of acr
ALEM, Ore./MEDFORD, September 11 (Reuters): Around half a million people in Oregon evacuated as dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires scorched U.S. West Coast states on Friday, destroying thousands
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An unprecedented spate of fierce, wind-driven wildfires in Oregon have all but destroyed five small towns, leaving a potentially high death toll in their wake, the governor said on Wednesday, as init
San Francisco, September 7 (IANS): California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in five counties due to aggressive wildfires continuing to ravage the areas.
Emergency was declared in Fr
SACRAMENTO, August 20 (Reuters): A former California police officer dubbed the "Golden State Killer" who confessed to 13 murders and dozens of rapes during the 1970s and '80s faces a lif
VACAVILLE, Calif., August 20 (Reuters): A firefighting helicopter pilot was killed in a crash, and scores of homes burned in California on Wednesday as hundreds of lightning-sparked blazes forced tens
SACRAMENTO, Calif., August 4 (Reuters): All day long, as Air Force nurse Major Pinky Brewton cares for patients struggling to breathe in California's COVID-19 ravaged San Joaquin Valley, fears for her