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Firefighters made some small progress on Friday in their fight to corral deadly wind-driven wildfires that have burned for days across the Los Angeles area, bringing a sliver of hope [...]

At least 11 people were reported dead in fires raging across Los Angeles. Five lived near each other in a ravaged Altadena neighborhood. Five of the nearly dozen people reported [...]

Byline: John BaconWilliam WesthovenJorge L. Ortiz USA TODAY NETWORK Show Caption Hide Caption West Milford Jennings Creek wildfire spreads across North JerseyWest Milford wildfire spreads in NJ and NY as [...]

Byline: Erin Blakemore In 2018, fires raged throughout the nation - and their victims weren't just those who perished in the flames. New research attributes 20,000 premature deaths in the [...]

Byline: Diana Leonard In the Klamath National Forest in Northern California, where the McKinney Fire has killed four people, residents have been confronted by a raging inferno and flooding rain. [...]

The fires have killed at least 20 people, leaving families and communities devastated up and down the West Coast. SAN FRANCISCO -- They lived more than 500 miles from each [...]

SALEM, Ore. -- A 36-mile-wide line of flames edged into the towns around Portland, Ore., and cities along the West Coast were smothered in acrid smoke and ash on Friday [...]

Byline: by Timothy Bella and Marisa Iati Oregon officials are concerned they may find a 'mass fatality incident' as they survey the wreckage of roughly three dozen fast-moving wildfires that [...]

Byline: Andrew Freedman and Timothy Bella Wildfires continue to burn without containment up and down the length of the West Coast on Thursday, with smoke blotting out the sun in [...]

A record 2.5 million acres have burned in California, while entire communities in Oregon and Washington were largely wiped out. MALDEN, Wash. -- The wildfire arrived with such ferocity that [...]

LOS ANGELES -- After a temperate early summer and a balmy Fourth of July, Southern California residents abruptly found themselves in a caldron of triple-digit temperatures and wildfires this weekend. [...]

Byline: Mark Berman Authorities in California said Thursday that a firefighter died during the response to the Thomas Fire, a massive blaze that has grown to become the fourth-biggest in [...]

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- On the night of Oct. 8, deadly flames from a wildfire sped toward the city as its residents slept. Many had gone to bed with no [...]

Byline: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Kristine Phillips, Joel Achenbach and Herman Wong SANTA ROSA, Calif. - The wind known as the Diablo has picked up again, the air is dry, [...]

Byline: Cleve Wootson, Breena Kerr, Lea Donosky, Kristine Phillips and Scott Wilson SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- A series of historically deadly Northern California wildfires regained momentum Wednesday as winds whipped [...]

A series of wildfires has devastated homes, farmland and livestock in a large area of southern and central Chile over the past week. A prolonged drought and high temperatures have [...]

Byline: Lindsey Bever, Angela Fritz and Peter Holley Efforts to pinpoint the cause of deadly wildfires that engulfed two tourist towns outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park and shut down [...]

Byline: Theresa Vargas If Sylvan Creecy had run in another direction, he might have ended up on the concrete floor of a makeshift morgue, lying beside the men he had [...]

Byline: Lisa Bonos;Amy B Wang;Cleve R. Wootson Jr. SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- The deadly wildfires that have ravaged Northern California over the past week -- killing dozens and forcing thousands [...]

Byline: Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY Firefighters battling blazes across the West struggled Thursday with the deaths of three of their own even as hot, dry weather fanned flames from Oregon [...]

Byline: Kevin Truong The wildfires raging in the West and eating up thousands of acres of drought-starved terrain have claimed the lives of three firefighters in Washington state. Their vehicle [...]

Byline: Pete Spotts Was it for want of a weather forecast that 19 firefighters were lost? As friends, family, and even strangers mourn the loss of all but one member [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board The loss of 19 firefighters in an Arizona wildfire has brought nationwide sympathy for their families. This is the highest number of firefighters killed since [...]

DENVER -- A fast-growing wildfire raged through dry forests and hillside subdivisions in northern Colorado on Monday, charring homes and forcing hundreds of families to evacuate in the latest out-of-control [...]