San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland. Two states on the US west coast - California and Oregon - recorded the worst air quality in the world this week. Thick fog, a lingering smell of smoke and rain of ash: the skies in and around San Francisco for a while...

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 ...

Smoke from violent wildfires raging on the West Coast spread thousands of miles eastward, reaching parts of the Midwest, Canada and northern New York, writes CNN. At least 35 people have died in the fires, the worst of ...

In California, a fire tornado that arose during a forest fire was filmed on video: the fire breaks through large sections of the west coast and has already killed at least 35 people, reminds The Daily Mail. Footage showing a forest fire meets a column of air and ...

Wildfires continue to rage uncontrollably along the west coast, where skies have taken on an eerie orange hue and people are fleeing across the region. This family and friends could have been among the dead if they had not jumped into an ice reservoir and spent ...

Californians compare the apocalyptic orange skies in the San Francisco Bay Area to disaster movie scenes, while Los Angeles suffers from the worst smog in 26 years, and the air quality there has plummeted to the worst in the world as ...

Forest fires raging in Northern California have killed at least 5 people. Tens of thousands of residents were evacuated, and as of Thursday, August 20, at least two people were missing, writes Fox News. Reportedly this week in ...

The onslaught of wildfires raging across California was fatal as thousands of firefighters fought to contain 23 large, complex fires across the state, NPR writes. According to representatives of the Forestry and Fire Department (Cal Fire), the helicopter pilot who fought ...

The heatwave and drought in the US West led to the spread of wildfires, writes Fox News. Four large wildfires currently raging in Colorado create large plumes of smoke that can be seen from space. Fires have broken out over the past two ...

A powerful fire that forced the evacuation of more than 8 thousand people in Southern California led to the appearance of smoke hundreds of miles to the east - because of the smoke screen, residents of Arizona saw a bright red sun in the sky, writes Fox News. The Apple Fire burned more than 32...