The vast majority of western dry forests are at risk of large, high-intensity fire because of the effects of poor forest management over the past century. The primary factors that lead to current ...

[someone speaks in background] Yeah ... He's a prescribed fire specialist with the US Forest Service. But it wasn't always like that for him. For 22 years, he was a wildland firefighter, largely ...

with residents urged to take care when handling fire. The forest is flanked by a shooting range operated by the maritime self-defence forces (MSDF), which was conducting an “explosives training ...

But the few remaining fire lookouts of the US Forest Service often live and work for weeks at a time on their own, scouring the horizon for any hint of smoke from remote lookout towers.

CNN By Artemis Moshtaghian, Amanda Musa and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Southern California residents were under ...

Fire-fighters and helicopters were combating a blaze in a forest on a Japanese island on Friday, with media reports saying it may have been started by nearby military exercises. Public broadcaster ...