The fires raging around Los Angeles bring to mind another devastating U.S. fire that killed more than a thousand people on ...

In regions where fire is a natural phenomenon, organisms have adapted to cope with periodic fires. Terrestrial mammals and ...

As massive as the destruction seems, it isn't without comparison in Michigan, which has seen three of the nation's deadliest ...

The Great Chicago Fire? Right date, wrong event. I am referring to the Peshtigo Fire, a forest fire that destroyed 1.2 million acres and more than a dozen towns in Wisconsin. A mass grave in the ...

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About a third of US homes are in a wildland-urban interface, a kind of high-risk area where development meets open land.

Today, the largest is known as the Peshtigo fire, which covered large parts of Wisconsin and the lower tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in the Marinette and Escanaba State Forest areas. And the ...

Multiple fire departments responded to a home in the Town of Porterfield on the evening of January 2, including the Peshtigo Fire Department and Grover-Porterfield Fire Department. Authorities say the ...

Wildfires continue to rage across the Los Angeles region. The largest blaze, the Palisades fire, has burned approximately 24,000 acres.

Today, the largest is known as the Peshtigo fire, which covered large parts of Wisconsin and the lower tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in the Marinette and Escanaba State Forest areas.