State and local officials honored firefighters and other first-responders who fought the Jennings Creek wildfires for two weeks last fall at the Township ...

Jackson Outfitters, a hunting company based in southwestern Colorado, paid $500,000 to settle allegations that it sparked a national forest wildfire in 2019, federal officials said.

N.J., and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Shawn LaTourette announced a series of actions to reduce ...

Wildfires in the U.S. Northeast pose a “major threat,” according to a Moody’s report. A record-setting drought turned ...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy used a press conference on wildfire readiness to say New York’s lack of a state fire service is “beyond belief.” ...

Rain wasn’t enough to extinguish the fire, and flames continued “in areas of extreme hurricane damage,” U.S. Forest Service officials said.

On Thursday, firefighters contained another wildfire in McDowell County, the Crooked Creek fire that previously ... smoke and Hurricane Helene. LISA JENNINGS U.S. FOREST SERVICE ...

WSOC Firefighters contained the rest of the Crooked Creek wildfire in McDowell County Thursday afternoon that previously forced families to evacuate from their rural Western North Carolina homes.

The Crooked Creek fire is fully contained while the North Fork fire has continued to grow. The Crooked Creek fire, off Bat Cave Road in Old Fort, was declared fully contained late Thursday afternoon.