FIRESTORM

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PSU study sheds light on 2020 extreme weather event that brought fires and snow to western US
Mar 04, 2024 (SPX)
"It's really interesting to see such an amplified pattern result in opposing extremes in the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountains," said Emma Russell, a ma...
Texas battling largest wildfire in its history
Mar 01, 2024 (AFP)
The Texas A&M Forest Service said six major fires, fueled by winter heat and ferocious winds, were actively burning, five of them across the state's northern ar...
Winds threaten to fuel huge Texas wildfire as blizzard hits California
Mar 01, 2024 (AFP)
Fires are burning across northern Texas and neighboring Oklahoma, fueled by an unseasonably warm winter and ferocious winds. After a slight dousing of rain that...
One death reported as wildfires rage across Texas panhandle
Feb 29, 2024 (AFP)
The Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas' panhandle, a flat northern area known for its prairies and smattering of small towns, was listed as only three percent conta...
Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia see surging wildfire emissions: EU monitor
Feb 28, 2024 (AFP)
Punishing drought conditions across South America have helped drive blazes that have scorched across parts of the region in recent weeks, the Copernicus Atmosph...
Texas towns evacuated as raging wildfires destroy homes
Feb 28, 2024 (AFP)
The Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas' panhandle, a flat northern area known for its prairies and smattering of small towns, was listed as 3 percent contained by t...
At least 15 killed in fire in east China's Nanjing
Feb 24, 2024 (AFP)
The fire broke out early Friday morning, officials said at a press conference, with a preliminary investigation suggesting the blaze started on the building's f...
'Zombie' blazes and drought: Canada headed for another brutal fire season
Feb 23, 2024 (AFP)
And even though it's the dead of winter, the lack of snow this year is compounding ongoing drought conditions, leaving Canadians already bracing for another bru...
Australia battles 'volatile' bushfire
Feb 22, 2024 (AFP)
The out-of-control blaze, about two hours' drive northwest of state capital Melbourne, has already burned through about 10,000 hectares (24,000 acres) of forest...
Climate change not to blame for deadly Chile fires: researchers
Feb 22, 2024 (AFP)
Improper land use had a bigger impact, it found, with the expansion in recent decades of pine and eucalyptus monocultures -- much more flammable than native veg...
NASA joins National Wildfire Coordinating Group
Feb 20, 2024 (SPX)
The NWCG serves as a national leader, promoting interoperable wildland fire operations among a broad spectrum of partners, including federal, state, local, trib...
Women train to fight fire with fire in Portugal
Feb 09, 2024 (AFP)
In the hills above the Portuguese town of Paredes de Coura, women used drip torches to set fire to thorny patches of scrubland, creating grazing areas for lives...
Chile's deadly wildfires extinguished
Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)
"The forest emergency that began on February 2 is considered to have been overcome," said the fire department in the seaside resort town Vina del Mar, one of th...
In Chile, natural disasters fall on all-volunteer fire service
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
Both men dashed to the scene of the world's third-worst wildfire tragedy last weekend in the country's coastal Valparaiso region, where 131 people have been kil...
Chile wildfire survivors return to horrifying aftermath
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
Still shaken by the charred bodies he saw inside the crumbling houses in his Villa Independencia neighborhood of Vina del Mar, the 24-year-old welder and univer...
Wildfires scorch central Chile, death toll tops 110
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
Responders continued to battle fires in the coastal tourist region of Valparaiso amid an intense summer heat wave, with temperatures soaring to 40 degrees Celsi...
Chile mourns 122 killed in wildfire inferno, searches for missing
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
The streets were strewn with charred cars, debris and ash after flames tore through crowded hilltop neighborhoods in the coastal region of Valparaiso, in the wo...
What to know about Chile's voracious wildfires
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
This is what you need to know about the country's deadliest wildfires in recent history: - Why did fire spread so quickly? - Summer is in full swing in Chile an...
Discovering the physics behind 300-year-old firefighting methods
Feb 05, 2024 (SPX)
In 1666, when bucket brigades were the best line of defense, the Great Fire of London burned almost all of the city's tightly packed, wooden structures. The dis...
'It was hell': Survivor recounts rush of flames in Chile wildfire
Feb 04, 2024 (AFP)
"It was hell," the 61-year-old told AFP in El Olivar, what had been a peaceful, scenic area. "I tried to help my neighbor...(then) my house was starting to burn...
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