Firefighters from more than a dozen agencies on Monday were battling to stop a 700-acre wildfire as it came within a mile of about 2,000 homes on a hot and windy day, officials said.
Two volunteer firefighters were taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion, said Mary Kay Hicks, a Texas Forest Service spokeswoman. No other [...]
A second day of hot weather and dry wind stoked new wildfires across Northern California on Wednesday, as firefighters battled blazes that have damaged at least 50 homes and threaten hundreds more.
About 1,500 residents in the heavily forested hills north of Santa Cruz were told Wednesday afternoon to leave their homes as a quick-moving wildfire [...]