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Fire whirls and pyrocumulus clouds: How fire creates its own weather
CNN via Yahoo News· 10 months agoSubstantial fires can make their own weather – and do it in several ways. The most common weather...
Oak Fire live update: Wildfire ‘moving fast,’ jumps road and now threatens structures
Merced Sun-Star via AOL· 2 years agoA fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite National Park quickly spread in the mountainous terrain of...
Oak fire near Yosemite explodes to 6,555 acres. 10 structures destroyed, thousands evacuated
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA firefighter battles the Oak fire as it crosses Darrah Road in Mariposa County on Friday. (Noah...
Fast-moving McKinney Fire blows up in western Siskiyou County; evacuations ordered
Redding Record Searchlight via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis story is provided free of charge as a public service to our communities. Please support local...
Mosquito fire doubles in size west of Lake Tahoe, sending a pyrocumulus cloud skyward
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPG&E on Thursday disclosed 'electrical activity' near where the Mosquito fire started in the...
Eagle Cap Wilderness fires grow
Baker City Herald, Ore. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 31—The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest has closed sections of three trails that are near one of the two growing lightning-sparked fires the agency is monitoring in the Eagle Cap Wilderness ...
PG&E fined $45 million for conductors sparking Dixie Fire
KRON via Yahoo News· 4 months ago(KRON) — Pacific Gas and Electric Company agreed to pay a $45 million fine for igniting the largest...
Oak Fire updates: ‘Explosive fire behavior’ in Mariposa County destroys structures
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoEVENING UPDATE: The Oak Fire had now burned 11,900 acres and was 0% contained as of 6:45 p.m....
California wildfire has launched a ‘volcanic eruption’-sized smoke cloud
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Mosquito Fire is raging in northern California, sending the forest into flames as smoke billows...
How heat waves spread wildfires in California -- even when it isn't windy
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFirefighters and meteorologists look to a little-known metric called "mixing height" to understand...
