Siphon Fire requests calls to register for alerts in Maricopa and Pima Counties A Tonto forestry official is urging residents near the roughly 12,000-acre Siphon Fire to sign up for alerts from Maricopa and Pinal counties and to prepare. Amy Austin had just finished hiking the Cloud View Trailhead when authorities began putting up a […]
LOS ANGELES — As wildfires raging in the mountains cast an orange glow behind the downtown Los Angeles skyline, Southern California residents were jolted awake Thursday by another reminder of the power of Mother Nature. Earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale shakes the Los Angeles area It was an all too familiar feeling for […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — On Thursday morning, an earthquake was widely felt in the Los Angeles area. The US Geological Survey reported a preliminary 4.7 magnitude quake with an epicenter 7 kilometers north of Malibu. The quake occurred about 11 kilometers below the Earth’s surface, the USGS said. The shaking was felt as far away […]
Las Vegas (LAS) — Fires in California prompted an air quality warning due to smoke in Clark County on Wednesday. “You try to avoid it as much as possible, but certain responsibilities call,” says Michael Taylor during a visit to a local dog park. He says he had no choice but to spend time outdoors […]
Three forest fires rage simultaneously in California Three devastating fires are raging simultaneously in California, leading to evacuations and a state of emergency. Large wildfires are raging across the West, causing dangerous air quality in Nevada and California. The Davis Fire between Reno and Lake Tahoe and three fires east of Los Angeles – the […]
WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) – Three large forest fires in Southern California expanded dramatically – houses, cars and horse stables burned in the mountain communities, at least a dozen people were injured, officials said on Wednesday. In the close-knit community of Wrightwood, trees burned behind homes as authorities pleaded with residents to evacuate the surging Bridge […]
Amid a spate of climate-related weather disasters such as flooding And Hurricanestogether with the Breaking heat records,Forest fires and many Americans are increasingly concerned about global warmingClimate change was during the Presidential debate. When Vice President Kamala Harris asked the only debate question on climate on Tuesday night, she said, “The young people of America […]
Watch: Airport fire engulfs weather station and destroys webcam Time-lapse footage shows a fast-spreading airport fire destroying a weather station in California. Cal Fire said 22,376 acres of land were burned. As the Airport Fire, one of three major wildfires currently raging in Southern California, rages for the third day in a row, time-lapse footage […]
Siphon fire burns in the Superstition Mountains Emergency crews are searching for a wildfire that broke out in a remote area of the Superstition Mountains. No structures are at risk. FOX 10’s Danielle Miller reports. The order The Siphon Fire is raging in a remote area of the Superstition Mountains northeast of Apache Junction. The […]
A suspected California arsonist was arrested days after he allegedly started the San Bernardino Line Fire that has devastated thousands of acres of forest east of Los Angeles. Justin Wayne Halstenberg was charged Tuesday after the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department began an investigation into the wildfire that has burned more than 34,000 acres of land […]
