On August 15, a wildfire caused by squally winds swept through the National Forest in Northern California. This led to the evacuation of residents, according to the DailyBeast. The fire in Siskiyou County near the Oregon border was one of at least 19 fires that have broken out...
On Tuesday March 30, South Dakota Gov. Christie Noem declared a state of emergency over fires that forced hundreds of people to evacuate and shut down Mount Rushmore. Writes about this CNN. The state of emergency will last until June 1 due to "severe drought and dangerous fires," it says ...
Smoke from fires that burned millions of acres in the western United States has almost reached Hawaii and Michigan, writes The Guardian. Four cities on the US west coast are currently among the ten worst air quality locations as wildfires rage ...
Thousands of people are forced to evacuate due to the fact that in the western part of the United States, from New Mexico to Alaska, more than three dozen wildfires blaze, writes ABC News. The hardest hit areas are in Arizona, where the Bighorn Fire near Tucson has grown to 31 ...
Being a huge country, the USA amazes with the variety of nature and climatic zones. In Hawaii, summer is eternal, while Alaska is covered with snow and ice for most of the year. Arizona, arid and scorching sunshine, is radically different from Washington state, where cloudiness and rain can be annoying ...
Fires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone are a long-standing fear of Kiev residents and residents of the northern regions of Ukraine. People believe that “charged” radioactive particles can spread with smoke, almost like during the 1986 accident, writes BBC News Ukraine. In fact…
The authorities of the US state of California did not alert many residents of the impending forest fire. Some residents, whose houses burned down in the Camp bushfire, learned about the impending danger from neighbors knocking on the door, from friends' cell phone calls. Others just looked at ...
Since the beginning of November, fires have raged in California due to dry weather and strong winds. By November 16, they killed 60 people, more than 600 people were missing, and preliminary forecasts indicate that the fire will not stop until the end ...
The main dilemma created by the California forest fires is whether to rebuild houses destroyed by fire so that the next natural disaster could destroy them again, or... This “or” is now being pondered by everyone, from the authorities of burned cities to celebrities whose mansions were burned to the ground. Paul Bancroft...
A US border guard threw a family holiday to announce the sex of his unborn child, but in the process, a major forest fire accidentally happened. The flame flared up from a small pyrotechnic projectile, the multicolored flash of which, according to the man's idea, was supposed to show the guests who was expected in ...