Operation Deimos

Flying south through smoky skies down the famous Malibu coast, at first the burnt-out mansions are the exception -- solitary wrecks, smoldering away between rows of intact, gleaming beachfront villas.

A wind-fanned wildfire quickly spread early on Tuesday in Malibu, threatening homes and businesses in the coastal California community where many Hollywood elites reside. The Franklin Fire broke out late Monday evening as most of Southern California was under a National Weather Service warning...

Northern California's Park Fire had swelled to 383,619 acres as of Tuesday morning.

Firefighters are battling a growing wildfire in Northern California that has forced at least 13,000 people to evacuate. The fire's cause is being investigated.

PG&E is facing the prospect of a state penalty and fines in connection with a huge and destructive wildfire that the utility caused in Northern California, regulators said Monday. The state Public Utilities Commission is eyeing a $45 million penalty against PG&E due to the utility’s role in causing the Dixie Fire that scorched portions of five California counties in 2021. The Dixie Fire cost $1.15 billion and roared through sections of Plumas, Butte, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama counties. 

Federal authorities were reportedly looking at a new theory as to what may have ignited one of several massive wildfires in California.

A blackened swimming pool and a chimney were all that remained when Oren Waters returned home Thursday to assess what remained of his home of 50 years on the outskirts of Los Angeles. 

The Fish Creek Fire has burned nearly 8,000 acres in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest. The wildfire is expected to get even bigger.

A fire raging out of control in northern California has rapidly become among the biggest ever in the western US state, authorities said Saturday. 

The Durkee Fire in Eastern Oregon is currently the largest active wildfire in the United States, with four other fires in the state also qualifying as “megafires” ...

A huge brush fire has backed up cars for miles on major New Jersey highway and left trains into and out of New York City standing still as billowing smoke could be seen for miles, NBC New York reported Thursday. 

Thousands of residents of Fort McMurray, a city in Canada's major oil-producing region, fled as an out-of-control wildfire drew near and thick smoke filled the skies. Shifting winds gusting to 40 kilometers per hour (25 miles per hour) fanned the flames...

A U.S. power company admitted Thursday that its equipment may have sparked the largest wildfire in Texas' history.