California Fires

A Clockwork Apocalypse: The Southern California Wildfire

Chris McGowan | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green


Chris McGowan

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?

California Fire's Smoke Reaches Colorado, Makes Mountain Invisible From Denver

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...

What Dangerous Particles Did LA Residents Breathe During The Fires?

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 -- ...

1 killed in Calif. fires; more Guard troops coming

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...

Firefighters Battle More Than 300 Wildfires In California

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...

Big Sur Wildfire Forcing Evacuations

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...

Fire Unexpectedly Worsens In California As Big Sur Is Evacuated

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...

California Wildfires: More Evacuations Ordered In Big Sur As Fire Jumps Line

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...

1,400 California Wildfires Burning With No Relief In Sight

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...

STALEMATE: Firefighters Battling More Than 1,000 Wildfires In California

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...

Hundreds Of California Wildfires Force Thousands To Evacuate

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...

Fake FEMA Reporters Promoted

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 ...

Jason Linkins

BeckWatch: Californication

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.

Wildfire Engulfs Homes Above Malibu

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...

Could Fire Destruction Have Been Avoided?

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...

Jason Linkins

The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Perino Terms A Deliberate Attempt To Mislead The Press "An Error In Judgement"

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...

Jason Linkins

BeckWatch: Pink-Eyed View of Code Pink

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...

White House Condemns FEMA's Fake News Conference

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...

Marie Osmond Blames Fainting Spell On California Fires

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...

Things We Lost In the Fire: 'Anti-Katrina' Efforts A Day Late and a Dollar Short

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.

BeckWatch: The Gleefully Inane 'Hate America' Rationale

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.

US Airways Waives Fees For SoCal Travelers

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...

Jason Linkins

Right On Cue, God Assigned Credit For Wildfires

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.

SoCal Fires Halt TV Filming Schedules

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 ...

SoCal Fire: Today's Top Story, Tomorrow's Top Questions

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?