In early January 2025, a wildfire sparked in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles County grew to destroyed large parts of coastal communities Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu.
Firefighters are battling numerous wildfires threatening homes in the West.
A wildfire threatening neighborhoods in and around Reno, Nevada, has forced officials to urge around 90,000 people to evacuate and cancel school for much of the area on Monday – and high winds that have frustrated firefighters’ efforts to contain it could make the situation more dire this week. The uncontained Hawk Fire – which started Saturday and had burned some 15,000 acres northwest of Reno by Sunday – was human-caused, officials have said, without saying how it started or whether it was intentionally set. Flames could be seen rapidly Sunday advancing down a hillside toward residential neighborhoods near Reno, marking the latest in a destructive fire season that has scorched thousands of acres and forced the evacuations of…
About 1,000 homes were threatened, authorities said.
Wildfires have forced some residents to flee their homes and left others keeping an eye out for possible evacuation orders.
Wildfires burning across the western U.S. and Canada on Sunday left some residents keeping a wary eye out for possible evacuation orders while others already forced to flee their homes waited to see what would be left on their return. In western Canada, over 20,000 people were forced to flee communities along Okanagan Lake in [...]
Photos and maps show how the Old Trails Fire pushed beyond familiar danger zones in Washington.
Forecasters expect winds to pick up in eastern Washington and Oregon on Friday and Saturday, but not to be as strong as last weekend’s were.
Wildfires in eastern Washington state have forced tens of thousands from their homes and scorched more than 250,000 acres. A total of about 390 square miles has burned across the state, and some of the fires, including those in the Spokane area, have not been contained. More: https://tinyurl.com/ycxbmuy4 #wildfires #washington #spokane
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