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Wildfires

July 2024

  • Vista Fire burns 1,200 acres in San Bernardino National Forest<br>epa11469736 Brush and trees burn from the Vista Fire on the San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA, 09 July 2024. The brush fire, which broke out 07 July, has burned about 1,200 acres in the San Bernardino National Forest. EPA/CAROLINE BREHMAN

    California: first death of wildfire season as body found in burned-out home

  • Firefighters work as fires burn in background

    California wildfires have burned five times the average area this year, officials say

  • a person splashes water on their head to cool off

    More heat deaths reported in Oregon as US heatwave continues to roast region

  • Black smoke darkens a red sky above a body of water against a black tree line

    The age of extinction
    Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’

  • US heatwave tied to four Oregon deaths as temperature records are shattered

  • California firefighters battle huge blazes amid heatwave and dry conditions – video

  • Fast-moving wildfire erupts near Yosemite amid blistering heatwave

  • Nearly 30,000 people in northern California evacuated as raging wildfire spreads

  • As Canada braces for a raging summer, Indigenous communities remain displaced

  • Thompson fire spreads in Oroville, California – in pictures

  • Brutal heatwave to cook US west as Fourth of July wildfire risks loom

June 2024

  • An image that is half black earth, half bright orange flames and gray smoke.

    Firefighters near Phoenix battle wildfire as temperatures surpass 100F

  • In this image provided by the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Oregon. smoke rises from a wildfire on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in La Pine, Ore. The wildfire near the popular vacation destination of Bend, is growing rapidly. Officials on Wednesday urged the continued evacuations of hundreds of homes in the area best known for its microbreweries, hiking, river rafting and skiing on nearby Mount Bachelor. (Capt. William Bailey/Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Oregon via AP)

    Wind-driven wildfire spreads near popular Oregon vacation spot

  • TOPSHOT-CANADA-WILDFIRE<br>TOPSHOT - Smoke from the McDougall Creek wildfire envelops Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, on August 18, 2023. Wildfires bore down on Canada's Yellowknife and Kewlona August 18, 2023, with firefighters in the west bracing for another "scary" night as stunned refugees from the far north began arriving at shelters after their entire city was evacuated. The blazes have caused "terrible loss," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters after meeting evacuees from Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories, as they arrived in Edmonton, Alberta. (Photo by Darren HULL / AFP) (Photo by DARREN HULL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Canada’s 2023 wildfires created four times more emissions than planes did last year – report

  • A black and white police SUV parked on a sunny road alongside trees, with endless smoke rising beyond it.

    Crews struggle to contain Oregon fire as blazes spread across US west

  • Wildfire breaks out in California near Paradise, site of state’s deadliest blaze

  • Climate crisis driving exponential rise in most extreme wildfires

  • Thirteen people appear in Greek court on charges of causing Hydra forest fire

  • Thirteen arrested after fireworks from yacht spark forest fire on Greek island

  • ‘Multiple disasters all in one day’: New Mexico’s brutal week of fire and flood

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