On a windy afternoon last week, the Anchorage Fire Department's wildfire division chief stood at the edge of a parking lot off Dowling Road, looking at a blond field of dry grass, a stand of stunted ...

Maps also consider “terrain-specific hazards, sundowner wind patterns and evacuation complexities,” fire agencies said in a joint statement Wednesday. The City of Santa Barbara will be merging ...

California's Public Advocate has been pressing for new utility fire maps since 2023. Utilities are on board — but regulators turned them down. This story was originally published by CalMatters.

The Vacaville City Council voted Tuesday evening to send a letter to the state government opposing new Cal Fire maps sent by the state fire marshal. The city is required to accept these maps ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – More than a dozen fire departments extinguished a fire early morning Wednesday at a manufacturing building in Painesville. Fire crews responded to the Avery Dennison Corp.

A fire at a plastics plant outside of Charles City prompted a late night evacuation alert on Sunday, April 6. The incident began Sunday at roughly 8:40 p.m. when the Charles City Fire Department ...

The attempt to protect residents from "predatory land speculators" was modelled on a similar order issued in the wake of the 2023 fires that devastated the historic town of Lahaina in Hawaii. "As ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville Fire Department said it has begun evacuation efforts at a northeast Louisville hotel due to flooding. About 61 guests at the Candlewood Suites on Zorn Avenue ...

UPDATE: Residents from the evacuation area are being allowed to return to their homes, according to Floyd County Emergency Management. First responders say the Avenue of Saints is being reopened.

In response to the recent flooding in Clarksville, the Red Cross has joined forces with local nonprofit YAIPak to establish an emergency evacuation center to support those displaced by this ...

The Probation Department is in the process of mailing requests to those whose parcels were contained within the CAL FIRE progression map of the blaze. “We want the court to have as much information as ...

Also see: Southern California fire danger zones increase 76% in new maps A five-fold expansion of wildfire hazard zones across Southern California raised homeowner concerns that new state maps ...