A Clockwork Apocalypse: The Southern California Wildfire
Can we change our land-use patterns and fire-safety behavior to avoid tragic deaths and property loss during these wildfires, and reduce the millions of dollars spent fighting them?
Can we change our land-use patterns and fire-safety behavior to avoid tragic deaths and property loss during these wildfires, and reduce the millions of dollars spent fighting them?
The Denver Post | Howard Pankratz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
The smoke over Colorado -- which has made the mountains west of Denver invisible from downtown Denver -- has come directly from the massive 85,000-acr...
LA Times | Bettina Boxall | Posted 12.27.2008 | Green
The Los Angeles times reports on some Californians' worst fears -- that the wildfires put something bad in the air: It was full of tiny particles -- ...
AP | DON THOMPSON | Posted 07.30.2008 | Home
PARADISE, Calif. — One person was found dead inside a burned-out house Friday after a wind-fueled wildfire swept through a rural community in th...
AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green
LOS ANGELES — Firefighters on Sunday took advantage of cooler, damper weather to battle a vast blaze ravaging Santa Barbara County as they tried...
AP | AMANDA FEHD | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green
BIG SUR, Calif. — Piles of charred rubble smoldered near California's scenic coastal highway Thursday as a ferocious wildfire descended on the s...
New York Times | Jesse McKinley | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home
Facing a stubborn fire, California officials ordered the evacuation of Big Sur on Wednesday as flames flared on nearby mountaintops and moved steadily...
AP | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green
BIG SUR, Calif. — Authorities are urging residents to evacuate most of the community of Big Sur on the California coast because a wildfire burni...
AP | SCOTT LINDLAW | Posted 07.08.2008 | Home
SAN FRANCISCO — With hundreds of wildfires raging across remote, rugged parts of California for a second week, fire officials have been forced t...
AP | MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home
SAN FRANCISCO — Firefighters in Northern California battled more than a thousand wildfires to a stalemate by Sunday, but forecasters said danger...
AP | MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 06.30.2008 | Home
SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of wildfires sparked by lightning flared Sunday across the heart of wine country and remote forests in Northern Califor...
Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
On Oct. 23, the day of FEMA's now infamous phony news conference, the agency's former external affairs chief, Pat Philbin, announced plans to promote ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Just in time for the holidays comes the gift that everyone needed: a book with a grown man fellating the state of California on its cover.
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
A fast-moving wildfire pushed by Santa Ana winds raced through the canyons and mountains of this wealthy enclave for the second time in little more th...
AP | Aaron C. Davis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Several aircraft were able to fly in strong winds on the first full day of last month's Southern California firestorms, contradicting officials' earli...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
On Friday, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino had to take up the issue of FEMA's decision to stage a Potemkin press conference on the agency's re...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
As we've already seen, whenever CNN's Glenn Beck finds himself straining to maintain the surfeit on inanity his employers ask him to dispense, it's ok...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The White House scolded the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday for staging a phony news conference about assistance to victims of wildfires...
Access Hollywood | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Osmond said she now suspects that the fires may have contributed to her temporary loss of consciousness. "The air quality is really bad and I have al...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
While he's yet to offer his amply-demonstrated brush-clearing skills to Californians in need, President Bush is bound and determined to make the California Wildfires the 'anti-Katrina.' At least that's what the wee-bit-late-to-the-story New York Times will have you believe.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
It's unbelievable that anyone would stoop low enough to insult those caught in the clutches of nature's fury, yet that is precisely what Glenn Beck, of the most trusted name in news, did.
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
US Airways is waiving some fees for customers traveling to or from Southern California who need to change their flights because of the wildfires. The...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
When we tuned in this morning, the thought occurred to me, "It's only a matter of time before one of our leading lights of religious extremism tells us that these wildfires are God's doing." And sure enough, Pat Robertson stepped up to deliver.
Hollywood Reporter | Nellie Andreeva, Kimberly Nordyke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The raging wildfires that forced the evacuations of a quarter-million people in Southern California are disrupting the production of several TV shows ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Perhaps the most important question facing us today is this: How long, exactly, will it take Anderson Cooper to fly to Malibu?
Chris McGowan | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green