Agency cited sprinkler need months before high-rise fire
MINNEAPOLIS — The agency that manages public housing in Minneapolis noted a need for sprinklers in older high-rise apartments months before a massive ...
10 animals killed in barn fire at Ohio wildlife park
PORT CLINTON, Ohio — Officials in Ohio say at least 10 animals have been killed in a barn fire at a wildlife park.
Somalia burial planned for Minnesota high-rise fire victim
MINNEAPOLIS — Family members of a woman who was killed when fire broke out on the 14th floor of a Minneapolis public housing high-rise say they’re mak...
Fire continues at Texas plant; 50K under evacuation order
PORT NECHES, Texas — More than 50,000 people in East Texas remained under a mandatory evacuation order Thursday as a fire continued to burn at a chemi...
Judge keeps California law on utilities paying fire damages
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal bankruptcy court judge on Wednesday rejected Pacific Gas & Electric’s latest attempt to change a California law requirin...
Evacuation orders ended as rain douses California wildfire
GOLETA, Calif. — A strong storm moved into Southern California on Wednesday, almost completely dousing a wildfire that had threatened thousands of hom...
5 dead, 3 hurt in ‘devastating’ Minneapolis high-rise fire
MINNEAPOLIS — A fire swept through a Minneapolis high-rise apartment building early Wednesday, killing five people and sending three others to the hos...
New film explores legacy of Boston’s Cocoanut Grove fire
BOSTON — Even though Boston’s Cocoanut Grove fire happened long before she was born, Michele Shapiro learned all about the disaster when she was a gir...
Above-ground power lines grow in risk as climate changes
WASHINGTON — Trees toppling onto above-ground power lines spark wildfires, more than 1,000 of them in the last decade in California alone. The wires s...
Survivors fear smaller payouts from PG&E with each fire
Lori Kennedy thought she was going to live a comfortable retirement in a modest home in wooded Magalia, California.
Blackouts hit Northern California again during fire danger
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric turned off electricity Wednesday for about 120,000 people in Northern California to prevent power lines fro...
Smoke shrouds Sydney’s skyline as wildfires burn nearby
SYDNEY — Thick smoke from wildfires has shrouded Sydney and its surrounding areas with health experts warning residents with medical conditions to rem...
PG&E boss says it wasn’t fully ready for California outages
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The head of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. told angry California lawmakers Monday that the nation’s largest electric utility wa...
GAO: 60% of Superfund sites at higher risk in climate change
WASHINGTON — The worsening wildfires, floods and hurricanes of climate change threaten at least 60% of U.S. Superfund sites, and efforts to strengthen...
Companies can get govt loans if revenue falls after disaster
NEW YORK — Months after a storm, fire, drought or other disaster has struck, small businesses that have lost revenue due to the devastation may be abl...
California faces fraught path out of wildfire, power crisis
The utility that serves more than 5 million electrical customers in one of the world’s most technologically advanced areas is now faced again and agai...
Wildfires force businesses to prepare for disruption
NEW YORK — The wildfires that are rampant this time of year in California force small business owners to be prepared in the same way as owners in othe...
California businesses at risk amid fires, power outages
NEW YORK — The California wildfires are taking a toll on small businesses, including those that are miles away and safe from the flames. Smoke, ash an...
Utility to pay $360M for major Southern California wildfires
LOS ANGELES — Southern California Edison has agreed to pay $360 million to local governments to settle lawsuits over deadly wildfires sparked by its e...
California regulators order inquiry into power outages
SAN FRANCISCO — California regulators opened a formal investigation Wednesday into pre-emptive power outages that blacked out large parts of the state...
Beer insulting California utility PG&E brews backlash
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Anger over devastating California wildfires sparked by Pacific Gas & Electric power lines is coming to a head — in a beer. An...
Australian wildfires destroy homes and force evacuations
CANBERRA, Australia — Scores of wildfires continued to rage across vast tracts of Australia's drought-stricken east coast on Wednesday, forcing hundre...
Winds fan ferocious fires in Australia’s most populous state
CANBERRA, Australia — Ferocious wildfires were burning at emergency-level intensity across Australia's most populous state on Tuesday as authorities w...
Widow sues boat owner in fire off California that killed 34
LOS ANGELES — The widow of a passenger who died in a fiery dive boat disaster that killed 34 people in the waters off California sued the vessel's own...
Rebirth, angst and the ‘new normal’ of California wildfires
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Tina Chandler walks outside her home and sniffs the air. "Do you smell smoke?" she asks.
Still a chance? 2020 longshots insist race is up for grabs
CONCORD, N.H. — Bernie Sanders rallied hundreds of supporters outside the New Hampshire capital when the senator formally filed to compete in the stat...
Despite fires, California wine is doing just fine - for now
HEALDSBURG, Calif. — If you're worried that wildfires might have created shortages of Northern California's 2019 cabernet sauvignon, or even just impa...
3 dead, dozens injured as Australia wildfires raze homes
CANBERRA, Australia — Wildfires razing Australia's drought-stricken east coast have left three people dead and several missing, more than 30 injured a...
Paradise community gathers on anniversary of Camp Fire
PARADISE, Calif. — One year after Paradise burned, hundreds of people gathered in the parking lot of a former bank building in the Northern California...
California’s worst wildfire transforms city that didn’t burn
CHICO, Calif. — Amber Blood got to Chico on Nov. 8, 2018, wearing pink slacks and her favorite white peacoat. It was all she had left.