LOS ANGELES — Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds burned into neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, forcing frantic evacuati...
Paige Donner | Posted 11.13.2008 | Green
"We're doing a full retrofit of Los Angeles. L.A. 2.0. We're creating a sustainable prototype by retrofitting Los Angeles with a functioning forest."
Huffington Post | Posted 11.13.2008 | Green
***Check Back For Updates*** UPDATE, 10/13, 2:30 pm: The AP is reporting that a second fire has broken out above the San Fernando Valley, prompting ...
AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home
LOS ANGELES — Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds burned into neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, forcing frantic evacuati...
AP | MICHAEL BLOOD | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home
LOS ANGELES — Fire officials prepared late Sunday for rapid growth of a wildfire blazing 20 miles north of downtown with the expected arrival of...
Los Angeles Times | Julie Cart and Bettina Boxall | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green
Fire commanders say they are often pressured to order planes and helicopters into action on major fires even when the aircraft won't do any good. Such...
Los Angeles Times | Ari B. Bloomekatz and Maria L. La Ganga | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green
MARIPOSA, CALIF. -- Thousands of firefighters continued to battle a growing blaze in the Yosemite area Monday, hampered by steep terrain and high temp...
AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green
MARIPOSA, Calif. — Smoke had turned the sun a deep glowing red by the time Dutch tourist Trees Duipmans and her three teenage children reached a...
AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 08.05.2008 | Home
MARIPOSA, Calif. — Smoke had turned the sun a deep glowing red by the time Dutch tourist Trees Duipmans and her three teenage children reached a...
AP | AMANDA FEHD | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A large wildfire in a national forest spread farther away from the storied coastal town of Big Sur on Monday but forced resid...
AP | AMANDA FEHD | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A large wildfire in a national forest spread farther away from the storied coastal town of Big Sur on Monday but forced resid...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green
Is global warming a hazard to your health? Just ask Abdon Felix Garcia, a farm worker in California. Oh, wait! You can't, because he died on Wednesday after working in a vineyard in 108 degree heat.
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 07.12.2008 | 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 ...
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,...
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...
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 ...
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 | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 11.13.2008 | Green