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June 17, 2025

Wildfires

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Disaster victims have extra time to file taxes

April 20, 2025 Cora Lewis

NEW YORK — If your life has been upended by a wildfire, hurricane, flood, tornado or another disaster this past year, the IRS recognizes that you may need more time to file your taxes and […]

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Firefighters make progress on containing some Carolina wildfires, but others grow

March 27, 2025 The Associated Press

RALEIGH — Firefighters announced progress Wednesday night on containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the North Carolina mountains, but they warned that fire danger remained from dry and windy conditions. The news was […]

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California firefighters battle a dozen large wildfires

August 23, 2021 Associated Press

MATHER, Calif. — More than 13,500 firefighters were working Monday to contain a dozen large California wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee to safety. After an extensive […]

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New technology propels efforts to fight Western wildfires

August 10, 2021 Don Thompson, Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As drought- and wind-driven wildfires have become more dangerous across the American West in recent years, firefighters have tried to become smarter in how they prepare. They’re using new technology and better […]

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Huge Oregon blaze grows as wildfires burn across western US

July 20, 2021 Associated Press

BLY, Oregon — The largest wildfire in the U.S. torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon on Sunday, one of dozens of major blazes burning across the West as critically dangerous fire weather loomed in […]

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Reports says poor planning, heat caused California blackouts

October 8, 2020 The Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Poor planning coupled with extreme weather caused rolling blackouts that affected hundreds of thousands of people during an August heat wave, energy regulators said Tuesday. A 121-page preliminary analysis concluded that the […]

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Dying winds give crews hope in Northern California fires

September 29, 2020 Janie Har Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Easing winds gave California firefighters a break Tuesday as they battled a destructive wildfire that was driven by strong winds through wine country north of San Francisco and another rural blaze that […]

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Western wildfire smoke causes East Coast haze, vivid sunsets

September 17, 2020 Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press

The smoke from dozens of wildfires in the western United States is stretching clear across the country — and even pushing into Mexico, Canada and Europe. While the dangerous plumes are forcing people inside along […]

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‘Evacuate Now:’ Oregon wildfires grow as 500K told to flee

September 11, 2020 Andrew Selsky and Sara Cline, Associated Press

SALEM, Ore. — Deadly wildfires in heavily populated northwest Oregon were growing, with hundreds of thousands of people told to flee encroaching flames while residents to the south tearfully assessed their losses. The number of […]

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Redwoods survive wildfire at California’s oldest state park

August 25, 2020 Martha Mendoza, Associated Press

BOULDER CREEK, Calif. — When a massive wildfire swept through California’s oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among […]

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