Two homes are lost and evacuation notices remain as fire officials continue attacking multiple wildfires burning along Colorado’s Western Slope Friday morning.

The amount of land burned this year is on pace to be the most since 1994, as 100 blazes roared on Friday across the central Canadian province.

A haze visible in parts of the Sacramento Valley on Thursday is from multiple wildfires burning in Northern California. A north wind is pushing the smoke to the valley, and a high-pressure system is locking it in with little wind.

The Wolf Fire was just one of a spate of smaller-sized fires in the Inland Empire over the past two weeks, often near fast-growing residential areas. Hundreds of thousands of new housing units have been added in the wildland-urban interface in Riverside and San Bernardino counties over the past two decades,

"The main reason was the South Fork Fire last year that burned directly west of Ruidoso," Grzywacz said. "The soil wasn't able to absorb any of the rainfall, and it runs right down into Ruidoso. Normally, if you had that vegetation still there, it could absorb it. For the Ruidoso monsoon season, it was above average rain but not record rainfall."

Six Republican members of Congress – four of them from Minnesota – have called on Canada to impose 'better forest management.'

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.

Syria’s wildfires are the first major natural disaster since the country overthrew the al-Assad regime in December.

Federal, state and local officials continued to tout the massive cleanup of Eaton and Palisades fire debris as the fastest wildfire recovery in modern history. At a news conference in Pasadena this week,