The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Intensity and dramatic spread have led to unwelcome comparisons to 2018 Camp fire, which killed 85 people

California’s largest active fire has exploded in size, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scramble to meet the danger

Park fire has burned 239,000 acres, with an official telling CBS it was spreading at a rate of 4,000 to 5,000 acres an hour

Hundreds of firefighters from as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Africa are being deployed to western Canada to help fight wildfires while a major fire has damaged a third of the structures in the picturesque town of Jasper.

Town council of Jasper says about 32 percent of structures in the town had been destroyed in the wildfire.

Canadian officials say a wildfire in Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies this week has destroyed more than 350 structures but all of the critical infrastructure is intact

Ronnie Dean Stout II, 42, was seen shoving the smouldering vehicle down a 60-foot gully in Chico, California, authorities said

Danielle Smith and her government’s refusal to combat global heating is said to have made blazes more intense

Authorities say a Northern California wildfire that has tripled in size in one day was started by a man who pushed a burning car into a gully

At least 25,000 people have been forced to evacuate

Suspect allegedly pushed burning car into gully which started Park fire as other fires scorch Pacific north-west