Fires

California is abnormally dry after low-precipitation winter

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A dry beginning of the year has left most of California abnormally parched and officials are bracin...
21:27 27 February 2022

California wildfire victims fear coming last in PG&E payout

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A $13.5 billion settlement between victims of California’s catastrophic wildfires and the utility b...
21:46 26 February 2022

Cause of Los Angeles-area refinery fire under investigation

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — The cause of an explosion and fire at a Southern California refinery was under investigation Wedne...
20:44 26 February 2022

Crews battle fire in park close to Appalachian Trail, I-80

HARDWICK TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters from federal and New Jersey agencies battled a forest fire for a second day ...
16:22 24 February 2022

Judge rips PG&E for poor safety record leading to wildfires

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. judge ripped into Pacific Gas & Electric on Wednesday, saying its executives have put gr...
22:25 19 February 2022

Report: Work to reduce wildfire risks has economic benefits

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Projects to reduce the risk of wildfires and protect water sources in the U.S. West have create...
22:21 19 February 2022

PG&E banking on big profits after utility leaves bankruptcy

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas and Electric says it expects to become more profitable than ever after it emerges from ...
22:11 18 February 2022

Haiti officials say 15 children died in residence fire

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A fire swept through a Haitian children's home run by a Pennsylvania-based religious nonprofit group, killing 15 children, off...
21:48 14 February 2022

Minnesota Wild fire coach Bruce Boudreau

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild fired coach Bruce Boudreau on Friday after their 30th loss of the season.
17:01 14 February 2022

Lone door led out as fire burned Indian factory of US denim

NEW DELHI — Shouting and crying, workers in an Indian denim factory struggled to claw their way up a ladder to a door, their only exit as a fire blaze...
6:26 12 February 2022

Ferocious storm in Europe kills 8, causes travel disruptions

BERLIN — Ferocious winds, with gusts over 200 kph (125 mph), lashed Corsica and whipped up a forest fire that flared overnight on the French Mediterra...
12:51 11 February 2022

Fire sale: An Iran plant makes the US flags protesters burn

KHOMEIN, Iran — Near the hometown of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, workers at a small Iranian factory diligently add all 50 stars and 13 red-a...
6:50 10 February 2022

Deluge in Australia drenches fires and eases 3-year drought

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia's weather an almost Biblical feel this year. The good news is that ...
5:33 10 February 2022

Victims: PG&E still has rickety power line near Paradise

SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric is still operating a rickety power line near the one that ignited a 2018 wildfire that wiped out the Northe...
16:18 6 February 2022

Grenfell chair requests UK pledge on witness immunity

LONDON — The chairman of the inquiry into a London tower bloc fire that killed 72 people wrote to Britain's attorney general Thursday to ask for a ple...
15:53 6 February 2022

California firefighters return from battling Australia fires

LOS ANGELES — Twenty firefighters from California returned to the United States on Wednesday after spending nearly a month battling wildfires in Austr...
16:53 5 February 2022

Australian bank official says virus is an economic unknown

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's deadly wildfires will have no impact on the nation's economic growth this year but the impact of a new virus is stil...
6:33 5 February 2022

As forests burn around the world, drinking water is at risk

Fabric curtains stretch across the huge Warragamba Dam to trap ash and sediment expected to wash off wildfire-scorched slopes and into the reservoir t...
21:14 4 February 2022

PG&E clears another bankruptcy hurdle with debt refinancing

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement that moves Pacific Gas & Electric closer to getting out of bankruptcy, but the tr...
19:32 4 February 2022

Extreme weather has gardeners looking for resilient plants

Fiercer and more frequent natural disasters in recent years have many homeowners re-evaluating their landscaping. Many are restocking with trees and p...
13:23 4 February 2022

Wildfire creates state of emergency in Australian capital

CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian capital region declared a state of emergency on Friday because of an out-of-control forest fire burning erratical...
12:27 31 January 2022

PG&E and California governor at odds over bankruptcy plan

SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric attorneys on Wednesday assured a federal judge the utility will emerge from bankruptcy by its June deadline...
23:45 29 January 2022

Women, 5 children among 8 victims of Alabama dock fire

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. — A woman and her five children were among the eight people who died in a dock fire at a north Alabama marina, authorities and relati...
21:03 29 January 2022

A failed Italian job: Driver evades flaming highway robbery

MILAN — In a bid to rob an armored vehicle, a gang of thieves set up barriers of burning vehicles and spilled nails on a highway near Milan but were f...
10:32 29 January 2022

Coroner: 4 of 8 boat dock fire victims were children

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. — Roughly two dozen people lived on Dock B at Jackson County Park Marina, and none was rich or famous. They were middle-class adults ...
22:44 28 January 2022

Sundance: Ron Howard documents aftermath of the Camp Fire

PARK CITY, Utah — Ron Howard knew Paradise, the northern California town devastated by the most destructive wildfire in California history.
7:08 25 January 2022

3 Americans killed in Australia all had military backgrounds

DENVER — Growing up in a small rural community on Colorado's plains, Ian McBeth went to work as a ranch hand in neighboring Nebraska at 14 and was a s...
23:35 24 January 2022

Why tech has been slow to fight wildfires, extreme weather

SAN FRANCISCO — For two years running , California’s wildfires have sent plumes of smoke across Silicon Valley. So far, that hasn't spurred much tech ...
12:38 22 January 2022

Neighbor wanted Hawaii cop killing suspect evicted years ago

HONOLULU — A next door neighbor of a handyman accused of stabbing a woman and killing two Hawaii police officers before setting his home and neighborh...
22:26 21 January 2022

Suspect in Hawaii officers’ deaths described as unhinged

HONOLULU — A Hawaii handyman with a history of run-ins with police and neighbors faced eviction when he stabbed a woman and killed two officers before...
1:46 21 January 2022