Neighbors with hoses target fires as crews urge them to stop
Neighbors with hoses target fires as crews urge them to stop August 27, 2020The Associated PressREDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — With California firefighters strapped for resources, residents have organized...
View ArticleLaura carves destructive path through Louisiana; 4 dead
Buildings and homes are flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Cameron, La. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)Laura blasts Gulf Coast with wind, rain and wall of seawater...
View ArticleOil and gas industry assesses damage at refineries, plants
Winds blow the smoke from a refinery, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Port Arthur, Texas. The energy industry is bracing for catastrophic storm surges and winds as Hurricane Laura cuts a dangerous path...
View Article50,000 allowed back home as gains made on California fires
A California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection crew is engulfed in smoke while tending a backburn near Felton, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, as a CZU Lightning Complex fire continues to...
View ArticleLaura victims may go weeks without power; deaths climb to 14
Flooding surrounds a damaged building Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, in Cameron, La., after Hurricane Laura moved through the area Thursday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)Laura victims may go weeks without power;...
View ArticleWeather slows California wildfires; thousands allowed home
Artist Marcia Ritz, 77, leaves after looking through the rubble of her manufactured home at the Spanish Flat Mobile Villa trailer park in Lake Berryessa, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. In heavily...
View ArticleSome Californians didn't get evacuation alerts in wildfires
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, file photo, flames from the LNU Lightning Complex fires jump Interstate 80 in Vacaville, Calif. The highway was closed in both directions shortly afterward....
View ArticleWildfire forces over 3,100 to evacuate in Spain's Andalusia
Wildfires advance in Almonaster la Real in Huelva, Spain, Thursday Aug. 27, 2020. Hundreds of people were evacuated and thousands of hectares have already burned in a wildfire that began on Thursday in...
View ArticleIn aftermath of Hurricane Laura, residents worry about help
Linda Smoot, who evacuated from Hurricane Laura in a pickup truck with eight others, reacts as they return to see their homes, in Lake Charles, La., in the aftermath of the hurricane, Sunday, Aug. 30,...
View ArticleDeposed president evacuated from Mali for medical treatment
FILE - In this June 30, 2020, file photo, Mali's then President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita poses for a group photograph during the G5 Sahel summit in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Keita, the Malian president...
View ArticleCalifornia wildfire traps campers in national forest
Plumes of smoke rise into the sky as a wildfire burns on the hills near Shaver Lake, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. Fires in the Sierra National Forest have prompted evacuation orders as authorities...
View ArticleCalifornia simmers while it burns, but no big power outages
California National Guard shows dozens of evacuees are evacuated to safety on a Cal Guard Chinook Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, after the Creek Fire in central California left them stranded. More than 200...
View ArticleTyphoon lashes South Korea after battering Japanese islands
A coastal road is damaged in Ulsan, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. A powerful typhoon damaged buildings, flooded roads and knocked out power to thousands of homes in South Korea on Monday after...
View ArticleCalifornia sets record with 2M acres burned so far this year
A firefighter battles the Creek Fire as it threatens homes in the Cascadel Woods neighborhood of Madera County, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)California sets record with 2M...
View ArticleCalifornia fires bring more chopper rescues, power shutoffs
Flames burn at a home leveled by the Creek Fire along Highway 168 on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in Fresno County, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)California fires bring more chopper rescues, power shutoffs...
View ArticleDeposed president evacuated from Mali for medical treatment
Photo credit FILE - In this June 30, 2020, file photo, Mali's then President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita poses for a group photograph during the G5 Sahel summit in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Keita,...
View ArticleCalifornia simmers while it burns, but no big power outages
Photo credit California National Guard shows dozens of evacuees are evacuated to safety on a Cal Guard Chinook Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, after the Creek Fire in central California left them stranded....
View ArticleUnprecedented Pacific Northwest fires burn hundreds of homes
This photo taken from the home of Russ Casler in Salem, Ore., shows the smoke-darkened sky well before sunset, around 5 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Strong winds and high temperatures continued to...
View ArticleCalifornia fire that killed 3 threatens thousands of homes
Jason Anderson, 42, takes pictures as the sun is visible through thick smoke generated by the Bobcat Fire in San Dimas, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Hazy clouds of smoke from dozens of wildfires...
View ArticleFires without precedent rage in usually cool, wet Northwest
A helicopter makes a water drop, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, on a hotspot of a wildfire burning in Bonney Lake, Wash., south of Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)Fires without precedent rage in...
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