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 ...

For the last few weeks, a team of investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has worked out of a command post near a popular hiking trial, where officials believe ...

Worsening fire conditions are the biggest threat. As large trees develop over centuries, large fissures form in their trunks.

The biggest danger for wildlife is the aftermath. But many species have evolved to rely on the opportunities created by ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...

We're learning more about the events that led to a woman's car being crushed by a falling tree in Hixson Sunday.Neighbors say ...

HIXSON, Tn. (Gray News) – A large tree crushed a car driving down a road in Hixson, Tennessee, Sunday evening. According to ...

In the scenic town scarred by last year’s wildfires, locals focus on healing and accepting fire as ‘part of life’ ...

The Georgia State Fire Marshals Office is investigating an apartment fire that left one woman dead and sent a man to the ...

A woman went to the hospital Sunday evening in Hixson after firefighters said someone cut down a tree which then fell onto ...

The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...

Mom, are we going to have to run?' Here's how the first 24 hours of our unprecedented conflagration unfolded across L.A.