Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As drought conditions are expected to continue into the hot and humid summer months, wildfire safety has to be top of mind in the ...

RICHBURG — In rural Chester County, a house burned to the ground May 13 as local firefighters stood by watching flames pour out of windows until the roof crumbled and walls collapsed. This was no ...

What happens during a wildfire? The short answer is: much more than we know. As wildfires burn through trees, grasses and other vegetation, heat from the flames sets off thousands of chemical ...

To better understand how wildfires spread, experts in South Carolina are setting test houses on fire. By Mira Rojanasakul Photographs and video by Will Crooks Mira Rojanasakul and Will Crooks reported ...

Oct. 24, 2016 – An unprecedented 40-year experiment in a 40,000-acre valley of Yosemite National Park strongly supports the idea that managing fire, rather than suppressing it, makes wilderness areas ...

This summer, as smoke from wildfires raging across Canada has drifted into Boston, at times casting a sepia-toned haze over the city, a team of researchers led by Patricia Fabian, a professor in the ...

As drought conditions are expected to continue into the hot and humid summer months, wildfire safety has to be top of mind in the Carolinas. At the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety in ...