Latest Wildfires News
1500 evacuated as Spain's fire season starts early
MADRID (AP) — More than 1,500 people were evacuated as a major forest fire raged in Spain’s eastern Castellon province on Friday, marking an early start to the nation's fire season amid bone dry conditions. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promised full support to those who...
Today in History: March 21, Johann Sebastian Bach is born
Today in History Today is Tuesday, March 21, the 80th day of 2023. There are 285 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third, successful...
Editorial Roundup: South Carolina
Post and Courier. March 13, 2023. Editorial: SC budget plan finally delivers $50K starting pay — but not for teachers The idea of “defunding police” was never taken seriously in South Carolina. Although activists in Charleston and a few other cities called for...
Firefighter battling Virginia wildfire dies in ATV accident
ROSEANN, Va. (AP) — A firefighter battling a wildfire in western Virginia was killed when an ATV overturned, the state Department of Forestry announced Friday. Rocky S. Wood was killed while fighting a 15-acre wildfire near the Roseann community in Buchanan County on Thursday night, the...
Post-wildfire conditions result in poor recovery for fish
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Fishing in rivers and streams that cross through a national monument in northern New Mexico is off limits now as wildlife managers look for ways make the area more habitable following a catastrophic fire and years of subsequent flooding. Managers at...
New Jersey Pinelands fire that threatened homes is contained
LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. (AP) — A wind-whipped forest fire in the southern New Jersey Pinelands that threatened 16 homes Tuesday was fully contained by nightfall, and firefighters said they believed the homes were no longer in jeopardy. No injuries or damage to property occurred...
Work begins to clear water canals following New Mexico fire
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It's tradition in New Mexico's rural communities — to gather with neighbors each spring, shovels and rakes in hand, to clean the earthen irrigation canals that will direct snowmelt from the surrounding mountains to crops, gardens and orchards. Doing the...
Carbon emissions from boreal forest fires rose in 2021
Phillip Meintzer was hours away by car from the largest fires raging in the forests of British Columbia and Alberta in summer of 2021, but the air was still thick with smoke from the Canadian infernos. “The fires weren't next door. It was a little ways away,” Meintzer, a...
New Mexico law signed to help wildfire, flooding recovery
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday signed to use zero-interest loans to help local governments in the arid, Southwest state repair or replace public infrastructure damaged by wildfires or subsequent flooding. The law follows last year's historic...
Colorado ponders storing carbon in defunct oil and gas wells
DENVER (AP) — From Colorado's high desert to the wooded hills of Pennsylvania, millions of oil and gas wells sit deserted, plunging thousands of feet into the earth. Many haven't been plugged, some leak greenhouse gases. In Colorado, lawmakers are considering a solution that would...
