Smoke from the fire’s explosion poured into Yosemite National Park, impacting air quality in gateway towns Wawona and ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A lightning-sparked wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest burned Tuesday through a grove of ...

Firefighters hold the line in the Sierra, protecting communities and a giant sequoia grove amid a day of 'dynamic fire ...

A security camera captured the dramatic moment a bolt of lightning struck a pine tree on Sept. 9 in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.

As the Dollar Lake Fire near Green River Lakes burned thousands ... “I got up there [at] the same time the thing was exploding, blowing up,” Dockstader said. He photographed trees torching. “When they ...

Portland, Ore. — Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees, near the state's southern coast. The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas Fir tree over ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Target shooting and restricted ‘exploding targets’ have caused five fires in Oregon since May, state officials said, adding that some people should brush up on the rules before ...

FOREST GROVE, Ore. — Firefighters put out a brush fire that burned about an acre of trees and brush in Forest Grove Sunday afternoon. Forest Grove Fire & Rescue crews responded to the fire in the ...

New research from Western Colorado University shows that the long-held conventional belief about aspen trees being resilient to wildfires is more than just an anecdotal assumption. Matt Harris, a ...