Wildfires

The federal government has run out of firefighting leadership teams to deploy as wildfires rage across the western United States.

A study published this week found that Canada’s devastating 2023 wildfire season – which covered some of America’s largest cities with toxic plumes and affected 100 million Americans – resulted in Canada being responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country on earth except China, India, and the United States.

Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, awoke shrouded in wildfire smoke on Monday as a record number of fires blazed in the greater Sao Paulo state and the greater Amazon, killing at least three and threatening to engulf one of the world’s largest ecosystems.

Wildfire raged across the northern suburbs of Athens on Monday, leaving at least one person dead and triggering multiple evacuations.

Hawaii Governor Josh Green (D) said Wednesday that parties involved in lawsuits regarding the 2023 Lahaina wildfires are nearing a settlement.

A search and rescue team member is being praised for saving a Rottweiler and her litter of puppies from the Park Fire in Northern California.

The wildfire threatening Canada’s historic town of Jasper has quadrupled in size to more than 36,000 hectares and damaged up to half of the structures in town as of Friday.

Portions of Maricopa County, Arizona, have been advised to evacuate as a raging wildfire burns through more than 3,000 acres of land. 

The FBI is offering a monetary reward for information leading to those responsible for the pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people in the past week.

The Village of Ruidoso in New Mexico announced that residents were being ordered to immediately evacuate from the village due to the ongoing spread of the South Fork Fire.

Major wildfires broke out in California this weekend up and down the state, forcing the closure of the southbound side of Interstate 5, just north of Los Angeles, on Sunday.

Chilean authorities arrested 22-year-old volunteer firefighter Francisco Mondaca and former forestry official Franco Pinto over the weekend after prosecutors charged the men with causing massive fires in February that left 137 dead and over 16,000 homeless in central Chile.

Evacuation orders have been issued for the Fort McMurray oil hub in Alberta, Canada, as winds shifted, and a massive wildfire approaches.

Residents of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, have been ordered to be ready for evacuation at a moment’s notice as wildfires draw near.

Canada’s 2024 wildfire season has kicked into high gear with over 120 wildfires in the drought-stricken British Columbia and Alberta regions.

Eight months after those terrible Maui wildfires claimed more than 100 lives, some survivors are still living in tents.

The mismanaged state of California was forced to create “last-resort” insurance coverage and now that plan is on the brink of disaster.

The Smokehouse Creek Wildfire in the Texas Panhandle claimed the life of a second victim on Thursday. What is now the second-largest fire in U.S. history has consumed approximately 1.1 million acres — an area larger than the state of Rhode Island — and is less than five percent contained at last report.

Firefighters in the Texas Panhandle recovered the remains of 83-year-old Joyce Blankenship in her home which burned in the largest wildfire in Texas history. Officials report the fire consumed more than one million acres and is only three percent contained.

The Smokehouse Creek Wildfire in the Texas Panhandle spread to cover more than 500,000 acres on Wednesday, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. Officials report the fire is zero percent contained at this point.

Chile declared a state of emergency after more than 100 fires erupted that have so far claimed the lives of 122 people.

Canadian officials are reportedly monitoring “zombie” wildfires continuing to rage under the snow in late January, the National Post reported on Monday, which threaten to erupt with force in the spring and could potentially lead to another record-breaking year of fires.

A man from Quebec has pled guilty to starting 14 forest fires that forced hundreds of Canadians to flee their homes last summer.

Smoke from Canada’s still-burning wildfires once again drifted across the border into the northern United States this week, prompting smoke and haze advisories until Wednesday, although the air quality remained much higher than it was during Canadian wildfire smoke plumes this summer.

Miss Hawaii USA’s breathtaking banyan tree outfit won best state costume award on Wednesday in Reno, Nevada, as she paid tribute to Lahaina.

Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson are facing backlash after urging the public to give money to help victims of the Maui wildfires, while they themselves jointly donated just $10 million — a tiny fraction of their enormous wealth.

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers show how misdirected incentives, governmental corruption and incompetence, made the wildfire disaster on Maui worse but inevitable.

The largely U.S.-funded war in Ukraine costs approximately $100 million a day — more than the $95 million President Joe Biden wants to send to Maui after the most fatal fire in the nation’s history in over a century.

Three hundred eighty-five people remain missing after the devastating Maui fires, authorities updated Friday as recovery efforts continue.

The Chinese Communist Party’s state television network CGTN published a video on Friday blaming “colonialism” for the ongoing devastation in Maui, Hawaii, where wildfires are believed to have left hundreds dead and devastated the historic town of Lahaina in August.

President Joe Biden is asking Congress to approve $24 billion more in aid for Ukraine, which would bring the total amount of U.S. taxpayer-funded aid to Ukraine since February 2022 to $135 billion.

Maui search crews have allegedly found over 450 bodies, according to a local resident who is leading a grassroots relief effort to aid victims of the fire that decimated the town of Lahaina earlier this month.

A Maui resident told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that President Joe Biden’s visit to Hawaii made things worse.

Two people have died in the fires ravaging Louisiana as residents and leaders are desperate for rain to help quell the blazes.

A local resident who has led grassroots relief efforts in Maui told Breitbart News in a recent exclusive interview the Maui police chief’s claim that officers tried to evacuate people is a “total lie.”

Greek fire department officials arrested two men on Saturday for allegedly deliberately starting wildfires blamed for 21 deaths.