Wildfire News

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.

Chino Valley Review Chino Valley Fire crews responded to a wildfire that quickly spread to structures on Sunday afternoon.

The St. Michael Fire Department log for May 9-15, 2013: May 10 Motor vehicle accident on Highway 241 in front of Kwik Trip and were cancelled en-route. Medical call in the 40 block of St.

A Northeast Cobb man has been arrested in connection with a brush fire behind an Acworth business.

SPRINGTOWN Authorities closed down a marijuana growing operation in a Springtown home Sunday afternoon after firefighters responded to an accidental fire at the residence, the Parker County sheriff said Monday.

A plane drops fire retardant material on a three-alarm brush fire near Ivy Drive in Orinda, Calif., on Monday May 20, 2013.

Water-dropping helicopters were brought in to assist ground crews trying to contain the fire -- first reported shortly after noon Monday -- as it moved through heavy brush in the hills above East Harvard Road and East Walnut Avenue.

People watch as a brush fire burns Sunday, May 19, 2013, at the Whitney Ranch Recreational Area, precariously close to an apartment complex in Henderson.

Just over two years ago, firefighters from across the country were battling the biggest forest fire ever seen in Bracknell.

Record high temperatures in the upper 80s and lower 90s are set across Lower Michigan from the 16th to the 28th.

The Reno Fire Department is stressing the importance of residents creating defensible space around their homes to lessen the threat of wildfires.

A Concord woman was arrested Sunday evening on suspicion of arson after police say she used a lighter to set fire to a hillside that in turn sparked a four-acre burn.

Heidi Schewel with the Forest Service says a brush fire is burning about five miles east of the Nogales Airport.

Residents of the Upper Skyway neighborhood participated in the Wildland Fire Evacuation Drill Saturday to prepare for the possibility of a wildfire this summer.

At about 4:45 p.m. Friday, the Eagle River Fire Protection District was dispatched to a report of a wildland fire in Avon located at the 2500 block of Old Trail Road in the Wildridge.