A propane leak inside the Given Coffee Truck sparked an explosion outside the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday, the Winston-Salem Fire Department said. The leak was accidentally ...

The top of a historic tree in Oregon is on fire, and investigators are trying to figure out how it happened. The Doerner Fir, a Douglas fir tree that was believed to be about 450 years old and 325 ...

A lightning-sparked wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest burned Tuesday through a grove of giant sequoias and set some of the ancient towering trees on fire.Wildland firefighters with ...

Five years ago, the Labor Day fires burned more than a million acres across Oregon and Washington. Since then, researchers at Portland State University have been tracking the post-fire changes to the ...

In coastal Oregon, the state's tallest fir tree is burning. Douglas-firs (Pseudotsuga menziesii) are Oregon's most common trees, but the tree that's ablaze, known as the Doerner Fir, is special.

The Garnet fire burning in the Sierra National Forest in Fresno County has come within three miles of a stately grove of giant sequoias. The McKinley grove, home to roughly 200 behemoths, “is a major ...