Burn marks left on trees show that fires occurred frequently in North America from 1750 to 1880, but they tended to be less severe than modern fires and may have even been beneficial to forests ...

As embers began raining down on Altadena last week, Jason Salit sent his wife and two college-age children away.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Flambeaux Bicycle Tours cameras captured video of a man setting fire to a Christmas tree that was lying on the sidewalk in the 600 block of North Rampart Street in the ...

The air is still so bad that field crews cannot yet work safely. When they go out, they expect to to find snapped, broken or dried out young trees.

DENVER — A few hours after Denver firefighters extinguished a tree fire in Cheesman Park on Wednesday, they had to return for another tree on fire in the same area. The first fire happened just ...

The state fire marshal warns that these fires can grow rapidly, release a large amount of energy and cause significant damage in seconds. “The longer that real Christmas trees stay inside homes ...