A massive wildfire in the US state of Oregon has grown rapidly to some 600 square miles (1,554 sq km), an area more than half the size of Rhode Island's land mass, officials have said.
Crews in Northern California continued battling the largest wildfire of the year in the western US state, which has left more than 130 structures destroyed and thousands of people evacuated.
A wildfire was burning for a third day on a mountain near Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa.
A 35-acre wildfire burning near a reservoir in the Bull Run Watershed in Clackamas County, US state of Oregon, threatened…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has convened an emergency meeting to discuss the wildfire crisis in the Northwest Territories. Mass…
Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has declared a local state of emergency for the Alisal Fire. Evacuation orders and warnings have been issued.
Statewide, more than 9,400 firefighters remain on the frontlines of 12 major wildfires in California as of Saturday, according to Cal Fire.
"Dry conditions continue with relative humidity lowering into the single digits in many areas," the report noted, adding that wind had increased since Tuesday night
The extreme and dangerous heat was expected to break all-time records in cities and towns from eastern Washington state to Portland to southern Oregon.
The blaze ignited on Sunday, exploded Tuesday, due to very dry, windy, and changing conditions.
