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US wildfires: Search crews deployed in Oregon amid warnings of mass casualties
- US
- September 13, 2020
Search and rescue teams, with dogs in tow, were deployed across the blackened ruins of southern Oregon towns on Sunday as smouldering wildfires contin(...)

California wildfire sparked by couple’s plan to reveal baby’s gender
- US
- September 7, 2020, 20:47
A couple’s plan to reveal their baby’s gender went up not in blue or pink smoke but in flames when the device they used sparked a wildfire that burned(...)

Thousands ordered to evacuate amid fires in California wine country
- US
- October 27, 2019, 20:08
Authorities ordered 50,000 people to evacuate as California firefighters raced to cut defensive lines against a wildfire in Sonoma County’s famed wine(...)

Power cut to 750,000 homes, businesses as California faces heightened wildfire risks
- US
- October 10, 2019, 07:27
Electricity was shut off to nearly 750,000 California homes and workplaces on Wednesday as Pacific Gas and Electric Co (PG&E) imposed a string of (...)

What is California doing to prevent the next major wildfire?
- Science
- February 14, 2019, 01:03
Douglas Mac Donald has lived in the Alpine Oaks Estate mobile home park for the past 10 years. At about 11am on July 6th last year, in the midst of a (...)

California wildfires: Camp Fire is state’s deadliest with 42 dead
- World
- November 13, 2018
Convoys of fire engines rumbled through the smouldering northern California town of Paradise on Tuesday on their way to combat still-active sections o(...)

As California wildfires rage, survivors of shooting among those fleeing
- US
- November 10, 2018
Even in a state hardened to the ravages of wildfires, the infernos that raged at both ends of California on Friday were overpowering. At least nine p(...)

At least 11 dead after separate Californian wildfires
- US
- November 9, 2018
A wildfire that tore through Malibu mansions and working-class suburban homes in southern California has killed two people and more than doubled in si(...)

California firefighters on Monday were gaining ground on a massive wildfire that has killed six people and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses,(...)

California wildfire grows by two-thirds overnight
- US
- July 28, 2018, 09:29
A monster wildfire in northern California grew by two-thirds overnight after killing two firefighters, destroying hundreds of buildings and sending th(...)