After nearly 17 months on the job, council has fired Henry Hunter as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB). Jody Butz, the RMWB’s regional fire chief ...

The estimated cost of wildfire damage in the Rocky Mountain town of Jasper has ballooned to $1.23 billion, partly because the ...

No injuries were reported after firefighters extinguished a fire at a Timberlea home early Wednesday morning. Regional Emergency Services (RES) says they were called to a house fire on Diefenbaker ...

As the rampaging wildland fires hit modern communities, the interior of stick-constructed homes, chock-full of synthetic ...

Like many Utahns, I’ve been watching the horrors of the Los Angeles fires with concern. The recent St. George News article about firefighter training on Tech Ridge was timely in ...

In many regions, fir seasons are lengthening, and the window for preparing communities is shrinking, and in North America, fire season is just around the corner. The Resilience Institute partners with ...

Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ), which provided the estimate, stated the disaster is the second costliest fire event in Canadian history, behind only the 2016 Fort McMurray ...

Most properties destroyed by the Jasper, Alta. wildfire last summer have now received an approved demolition permit from ...

The phrase “urban firestorm” has terrified me since I first heard it, from the climate scientist Daniel Swain, who was spooling out for me a bleak recent history — Fort McMurray, Santa Rosa, Paradise, ...

An emergency shelter has opened at First Baptist Church in Old Fort at 203 E Main St. At 1:51 p.m. the office reported that the fire was at 0% containment. As of 4:29 p.m., the North Carolina Forest ...

a hamlet about 300 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. The school closed in 1974 and has been subsequently demolished. The motion to erect the monument passed unanimously at the Regional ...