Fires

California Thermal Hot Spot Reaches 812 Degrees

Fox News | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green


The ground is so hot in one part of Southern California it can melt the shoes right off your feet. An unexplained "thermal anomaly" caused a patch of...

California Wildfires Raging On 2 Fronts

AP | AMANDA FEHD | Posted 07.04.2008 | Home


BIG SUR, Calif. — A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched ...

Wildfire Engulfs Homes Above Malibu

AP | Posted 11.24.2007 | 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...

Why Aren't We Better Prepared for Inevitable Disasters?

Donald Cohen | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics


Donald Cohen

Will the recent fires in Southern California be a wake-up call about the nation's need to better prepare for what are misleadingly called "natural" disasters?

Malibu Fires

Kristen Reeves | Posted 10.23.2007 | Living


Kristen Reeves

On the television screen, landmarks from my childhood memories were going up in flames.

A Fire in the Verdant Core of Greece

Eugenia Chandris | Posted 09.02.2007 | Living

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Eugenia Chandris

In Ancient Olympia, the lawn of the stadium burnt and the flames reached the Olympic Academy, whose fire prevention system failed to work owing to a power cut caused by the fire itself.


 

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