Red flag warnings across New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado as "critical" fire conditions worsen through Tuesday with high winds.

The Austin Fire Department responded to a Thursday house fire in the 400 block of Sixth Place NW. AFD was dispatched to a ...

California Congressman Robert Garcia invoked Sesame Street characters to make his point at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, March 26.The hearing, hosted by a subcommittee of the so-called Department of ...

Evacuating the Tahoe basin in summer could take 14 hours, and 99% of properties are at risk — yet new resorts are being built ...

Weather alerts via text: Sign up to get updates about current storms and weather ... A fire weather watch is issued when confidence is lower that conditions will reach the point of extreme fire danger ...

Budget-conscious lawmakers have responded by letting Edison, PG&E and SDG&E do most of the heavy lifting of reducing wildfire ...

Southern California Edison knew for years that its transmission towers around Eaton Canyon posed a risk of sparking a fire, ...

The high winds and fire weather conditions were expected to continue into ... some Norman residents were asked to evacuate to the Little Axe Recreation Center or Cross Point Church. Residents living ...

WILLETS POINT, Queens (WABC) -- Crews battled a fire that broke out an auto body shop in Queens on Monday. NewsCopter 7 was over the scene of the three-alarm fire burning at an auto body shop on ...

But now, Australian authorities have provided a more concrete answer: battery overheating and fire risk ... Of note is the point that Pixel 4a devices with hampered batteries are still ...

"Tomorrow we hope at some point this will be a controlled situation," Sunderman told NBC News. Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said in a press conference that the fire was about 80% contained.

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