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Tens of thousands of evacuees are getting antsy to return to homes that arent under immediate threat. Others want to see if they still have homes to return to. (Photo: AFP)

California Wildfires: Death toll rises to 40, 100 miles wide

Evacuees fled in fear nearly a week ago, now they're ready to go back.

15 Oct 2017 7:26 AM GMT

California fire chief Ken Pimlott said more than 9,000 firefighters were battling 17 large fires that have consumed a total of 221,754 acres (89,700 hectares) since Sunday. (Photo: AFP/File)

Death toll rises to 33 in California wildfires, fire fighting ops in...

The death toll rose to 33 with a 14-year-old boy's body reportedly being recovered in Mendocino county near his family's...

14 Oct 2017 8:04 AM GMT

Residents who gathered at emergency shelters and grocery stores said they were shocked by the speed and ferocity of the flames. (Photo: AP)

California wine country ablaze; at least 10 dead, homes destroyed in...

Two hospitals in Santa Rosa, the largest city in the region with 1,75,000 people, were forced to evacuate patients.

10 Oct 2017 4:20 AM GMT

Cars scorched by the Carr Fire rest at a residence in Redding, California on July 27. (Photo: AP)

Wildfire roars into Californian city, people drive over yards, curbs...

The flames so thoroughly ate up homes that it's difficult to tell how many once stood above the pile of ash and smoking...

28 July 2018 8:27 AM GMT

The California wildfire has already charred more than 50,000 acres, destroying hundreds of houses. (Photo: AP)

Toxic effects post-wildfires are more harmful than the calamity itself

Scientists have studied wildfires for decades learning much about the impact on air, soil and nearby ecosystems in the...

13 March 2019 12:44 PM GMT

A member of a California Dept. of Corrections fire crew runs along a containment line with a chainsaw while fighting the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire. (AP)

California fires claim 6 lives, threaten thousands of homes

Many of the fires were sparked by lightning strikes, nearly 12,000 of them caused by brief thunderstorms since last...

22 Aug 2020 6:17 AM GMT

Cal Fire Battalion Chief Craig Newell carries a hose while battling the North Complex Fire in Plumas National Forest, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Firefighters trying to contain the massive wildfires in Oregon, California and Washington state are constantly on the verge of exhaustion as they try to save suburban houses, including some in their own neighborhoods. (AP)

Heavy showers bring relief to fire-ravaged Oregon as death toll rises...

The blazes, described as unprecedented' in scope and ferocity, have largely incinerated several small towns, along with...

19 Sep 2020 3:53 AM GMT

Mill Creek Hotshots set a backfire to protect homes during the Bobcat Fire on September 13, 2020 in Arcadia, California. California wildfires that have already incinerated a record 2.3 million acres this year and are expected to continue till December. The Bobcat Fire, burning in the San Gabriel Mountains, has grown to about 32,000 acres and is only 6% contained. (AFP)

Trump and Harris head for California as US wildfires ignite political...

The history-making blazes have now burned through nearly five million acres (two million hectares) across the US West

14 Sep 2020 8:11 AM GMT

Firefighters with the Monitor Fire Department wait alongside the road surrounded by smoke in an area destroyed by a wildfire Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, near Mill City, Oregon. (AP)

Search on for bodies in charred path of wildfires, Trump to visit...

More than 4,000 homes and other structures have been incinerated in California alone over the past three weeks

13 Sep 2020 5:54 AM GMT

Members of firefighters walk in line during a wildfire in Yucaipa, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. Three fast-spreading California wildfires sent people fleeing Saturday, with one trapping campers at a reservoir in the Sierra National Forest, as a brutal heat wave pushed temperatures into triple digits in many parts of state.(AP)

California fire triggered by 'gender reveal firework'

Gender reveal parties are held during pregnancy to unveil the sex of the expected child, sometimes announced by pink or...

7 Sep 2020 7:00 AM GMT

A firefighter sprays water while trying to stop the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, from spreading to neighboring homes in Doyle, Calif., Saturday, July 10, 2021. Pushed by heavy winds amid a heat wave, the fire came out of the hills and destroyed multiple residences in central Doyle. (AP Photo)

California and other parts of the West broil and burn

Late Saturday, flames jumped U.S. 395, which was closed near the small town of Doyle in California's Lassen County

12 July 2021 12:19 PM GMT

Sterilising one female cat can prevent 420,000 births in seven years. (Photo: Pixabay)

Family reunites with missing cat after 10 years

Thompson received a call on October 31, that Pilot, though badly burned and in extremely poor share, was alive and was...

29 Dec 2017 7:27 AM GMT