Wildfires

Larimer County, CO Fires Prompt Evacuations

Fox 31 | Fox 31 | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home


Evacuations were ordered for a subdivision northwest of Fort Collins due to a wind-fueled wildfire Wednesday afternoon....

Vilsack Indicates Openness To Colorado Exception To Roadless Rule

The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver


DENVER -- U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday gave the strongest indication to date that the draft of Colorado's roadless rule, which all...

Disasters: Where There's Smoke... There's a Silver Lining

Ellen Snortland | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living


Ellen Snortland

There's nothing like a good disaster to remind you of your own mortality; stop waiting for "someday." You need to write that book, sing that song, smell those roses, surf that wave

Alaska's Walruses High and Dry: (1st of 5)

Giles Slade | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green


Giles Slade

Pacific Walruses are a pagophilic (ice-loving) species whose livelihood and well-being depend on sea ice as a platform from which they dive to the ocean floor of the continental shelf to retrieve food.

Green News Report - September 8, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In today's report: the rising cost of fighting wildfires, and is Jaws back?

Post-wildfire worries: floods, damaged ecosystem

AP | JOHN ANTCZAK and ALICIA CHANG | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green


LOS ANGELES — Southern California's huge wildfire has turned nearly a quarter of the 1,000-square-mile Angeles National Forest into a moonscape ...

Fire no longer threatening LA-area communities

AP | JAMES BELTRAN | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green


LOS ANGELES — The western flank of the deadly wildfire north of Los Angeles was under control Saturday, sparing foothill communities further thr...

Firefighters Gaining On Los Angeles-Area Wildfire, Homicide Investigation Launched In Death Of Firemen

AP | JACOB ADELMAN and THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


LOS ANGELES — Investigators worked around-the-clock Friday as they sought to build a murder case stemming from a huge wildfire that claimed the ...

More HuffPost Readers' Amazing Wildfire Photos

Huffington Post | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


We've continued to receive amazing photos from readers of the Southern California Wildfires. Check out these incredible photos below. Get HuffPost...

Arson Caused L.A. Wildfire: U.S. Forest Service

AP | GREG RISLING and RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home


LOS ANGELES — Investigators launched a homicide investigation Thursday into the wildfire north of Los Angeles after determining that the giganti...

Single LA Fire Consumes One Year's Worth Of Water

news.xinhuanet.com | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


Firefighting aircraft have dropped about 1.7 million gallons of water and nearly 700,000 gallons of fire-retardant chemicals in an effort to put out t...

California Residents Return To Survey Fire Damage

AP | GREG RISLING and RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


LOS ANGELES — Investigators launched a homicide investigation Thursday into the wildfire north of Los Angeles after determining that the giganti...

How To Survive An Emergency

Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


Guest Post by Matthew Stein, P.E., Author of When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability and Surviving the Long Emergency In l...

HuffPost Readers' Incredible Wildfire Photos

Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


On Wednesday we asked readers to send in their on the ground photos of the wildfire in Southern California. The photos we received are amazing. Check ...

It's Not Just You: California Wildfires Turn Cranky

Beth Lapides | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living


Beth Lapides

Yesterday, just as we were peaking the cranky meter, Mike Dietrich, the U.S. Forest Service incident commander, said the California Station Fire had turned from "angry" to "cranky."

California Wildfire Photos: HuffPost Readers Send In Their Pics

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green


To see the latest photos from California, scroll down below the map. The California wildfires continue to rage throughout Southern California, with t...

Investigators look for clues into cause of CA fire

AP | JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home


LOS ANGELES — Investigators gathered along a remote road in a blackened forest Wednesday and hunted for clues at the spot where a gigantic blaze...

The California Wildfires Rage On (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green


The California wildfires continue to rage throughout Southern California, with thousands of firefighters at work to stop further destruction. For th...

Green News Report - September 1, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Fires rage across California as Hurricane Jimena bears down on Baja; Lights out for incandescent lightbulbs; The Summer of...

Huge wildfire portends bad Calif. fire season

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green


LOS ANGELES — Firefighters reported progress Tuesday against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles that might be just a preview of even gr...

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...

Los Angeles Wildfire: Live Twitter Updates

Posted 10.16.2009 | Green


See the module below for the latest Twitter posts about the wildfires that have raged around California....

Deadly wildfire surges closer to Los Angeles

AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green


LOS ANGELES — A deadly wildfire destroyed more than four dozen homes as it blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry Southern California forest, forc...

Calif. firefighters wage fierce wildfire battles

AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home


LOS ANGELES — Firefighters beat back flames licking at ocean-view estates Friday, while another wildfire raged through a dry forest above Los An...

WIldfires Spread As Summer Weather Finally Arrives In Colorado

The Denver Post | Tom McGhee | Posted 09.09.2009 | Denver


Two large fires are burning and smaller blazes are sparking throughout the state as the seasonal wildfire threat grows. A 3,500-acre blaze -- the Nar...