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 | DON THOMPSON | Posted 07.06.2008 | Home
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hundreds of lightning-sparked wildfires have turned the air of Northern California into an unhealthy stew of smoke and ash,...
AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 07.05.2008 | Home
BIG SUR, Calif. — Firefighters bulked up their defenses Friday against a wildfire that threatened parts of this storied tourist town and prepare...
LA Times | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
So, California. The economy's in the toilet, the state budget is bleeding red, the drought's getting worse and we've got wildfires so fierce, one of o...
AP | MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
SAN FRANCISCO — Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildf...
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...
AP | JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 06.29.2008 | Home
SAN FRANCISCO — A fast-moving fire erupted Friday along the Northern California coast, burning homes, forcing hundreds of residents to flee and ...
AP | AMANDA FEHD | Posted 05.30.2008 | Home
CORRALITOS, Calif. — Gusty winds fanned a wildfire Thursday that burned several homes, forced evacuations and closed schools in the mountains of...
AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home
SIERRA MADRE, Calif. — Firefighters gained ground Sunday against an early season wildfire that slowly chewed its way through dense brush near Lo...
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...
AP | DAISY NGUYEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
FEMA Administrator David Paulison, appropriately chastised by the "Anglo-Saxon" remarks of David Chertoff, wants you to know that he's sorry for the p...
Forbes | Matt Woolsey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The Santa Ana winds have died down and firefighters have tamed the San Diego fires that erupted last week. But what looks to be spiraling are the fede...
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...
LA Times | Jordan Rau | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Although Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration has improved its readiness for big blazes since the last major round of wildfires hit California ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
As previously mentioned, all three nightly newscasts originated live from the scene of California's devastating forest fires tonight as Katie Couric, ...
AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green