Wildland Firefighting

A day after frantically fleeing a remote Arizona mining town where a wildfire destroyed at least a dozen homes, hundreds of residents were allowed to return Friday.

Wearing soot-smudged, fire-resistant clothing and helmets, several wildland firefighters armed with hoes moved through a stand of ponderosa pines as flames tore through the underbrush.

Democrats who control the state Senate said Thursday they intend to advance a 10-bill package to the Assembly in the next week as California rushes to prepare for an intensifying drought and what officials fear could be a repeat of last year's record wildfire season.

Pacific Gas & Electric will pay $43.4 million to government agencies in three Northern California counties to cover bills left behind from wildfires ignited during the past two years by the beleaguered utility's long-neglected power grid.

A wildland firefighter was critically injured while fighting a wildfire on private land in southwestern New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border.

A Santa Barbara man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to setting a wildfire that forced hundreds of people from their homes.

Rick McClure shared some photos from the Palisades Fire, which started earlier this month in a canyon community in Los Angeles.

As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than at this point in 2020.

Rainfall in the Rockies and farther west was the second lowest on record in April, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A 23-year-old man was arrested for allegedly starting a hillside brush fire that triggered evacuation of hundreds of residents in Santa Barbara and damaged two homes, police said Friday.