Wildfire News

The sight of a dozen firefighters in full gear dousing a dry, grassy hillside Wednesday morning looked a little incongruous, but according to Cal Fire-Butte County officials, it was necessary.

About 200 people were ordered out of their homes in a rural area west of Edmonton on Wednesday as a wildfire fanned by heavy winds burned out of control.

Northeast Region forest fire situation update Northeast Region - May 21, 2013 There was one new fire reported on May 20 in the Northeast Region.

NO charges will be laid following a police investigation into the cause of the Cherryville fire, which destroyed a family home in the Adelaide Hills earlier this month.

A wildfire has now burned about 7 square miles of grass and brush on ridges of the Coronado National Forest in southern Arizona.

A 13-year-old boy playing with a cigarette lighter accidentally started a brush fire in El Cerrito Wednesday that briefly threatened Crawford High School and nearby homes.

A firefightier watches a backfire set in Hungry Valley State Park to halt the prgress of the Grand fire, which charred more than 3,000 acres of wildlands near Frazier Park on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

The fire erupted Monday and the visitor center has been closed, tours have been canceled, and power and phone service is out.

The fire is currently at 61 acres, but is now 60 percent contained. It's burning within a Lee County preserve.

Only days after an out-of-control wildfire threatened the hamlet of Nordegg, abandoned campfires caused 11 small wildfires in the Rocky Mountain House Wildfire Management Area on Monday.

Cleo Doss said the two-alarm fire began burning on a 50-acre plot of land about 11 a.m. at Singleton Road and Locke Drive, which is bounded by East Capitol Expressway and Senter Road.

The fire reported about 12:45 p.m. is east of the Sandia Pueblo casino and is generating a smoke plume visible from much of metro Albuquerque.

Twenty forest fires were raging on 3,236 hectares in the Siberian Federal District on Tuesday morning, the Siberian Federal District forestry department said.

We're told it started as a brush fire off of Farm Road but then spread very quickly to two nearby shed structures.

Neighbors filled Windmill Run Park on Sunday, May 5 to witness the unveiling of the Oak Hill Village Mosaic Wall, a community art project to commemorate the community spirit in the wake of the wildfires that devastated the South Windmill Run and Scenic Brook neighborhoods just over two years ago.

As wildfire season begins in Western landscapes that were covered in smoky haze for weeks at a time last summer, the federal government's firefighters are exploring the use of small remote-controlled drones with infrared cameras that could map a fire's size and speed, and identify hot spots, a particular danger.

A Cornersville man is facing felony burglary and auto theft charges after police said he broke into a volunteer fire department, stole a fire truck and drove to Mississippi.

UPDATE [3:24 p.m.] - Two air tankers, a helicopter and 130 firefighters from the county, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management have been sent to the scene, according to Riverside County Fire Department spokesman Mark Annas.

Concerns continue to grow about the effects of climate change on fire. Wildfires are expected to increase 50 percent across the United States under a changing climate, over 100 percent in areas of the West by 2050 as projected by some studies.

Vacaville fire crews are responding to a six-alarm grass fire at Timm Road and Buena Vista Lane in rural north Vacaville.