An Upland-based contractor has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement over the damaging South Fire, which burned through Lytle ...

A business owner was operating an excavator on Aug. 25, 2021, to assess the viability of developing a commercial property in Fontana when the steel treads of the excavator ignited dry vegetation in a ...

A number of states in the United States have declared air quality warnings with concerning levels noted across many of the Great Lakes states including Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. Parts of ...

The most high-risk conditions for fires are increasingly happening across countries at the same time, making resulting wildfires even more challenging to tackle, new research reveals.

Wildfires are an annual crisis in the United States. Each summer, the state's hot, dry weather combined with dense vegetation and expanding urban development makes it a tinderbox for lethal wildfires.

Smoke from wildfires is not something to be taken lightly, as it impacts air quality for miles. The danger of it can be measured on the air quality index (AQI), a scale that goes from zero to over 300 ...

Smoke from wildfires may be responsible for 17,000 strokes each year in the United States, new research suggests. The study, published in European Heart Journal, examined various sources of ...