wildfires

Charlene Harven has faithfully kept a “thankfulness journal” for the last two years. As a Red Cross volunteer working with victims of the California Camp Fire she says it’s easy to count her blessings.

Maryland firefighters are helping battle blazes in California, Montana, Texas and elsewhere.

President Trump blames California wildfires on failure to divert river water - a bit of misinformation that transcends the bizarre.

A Native American aphorism goes, “we do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.” The heavy rains that washed out roads and flooded streams here last week are just a tiny part of the rapidly accelerating patterns of extreme weather all around the world.

Maryland firefighters are helping battle a Utah wildfire in their first assignment of the year.

The National Weather Service has both counties on alert Thursday and Friday for the “enhanced threat” of wildfires.

A fire that investigators say began Saturday evening in a pickup truck parked outside a house in Street caused extensive damage to the vehicle and also spread to the house.

L.A. Times photographer Marcus Yam captured five friends fighting a fire in Ventura, California. This is how he did it.

The Baltimore County fire department has struck a second alarm to battle a brush fire in Randallstown that threatens nearby homes.

Baltimore County firefighters are battling a brush fire at a golf course in Lutherville on Tuesday evening.

Staff members with Baltimore-based Ripken Baseball are keeping an eye on the wildfire in Gatlinburg, TN Tuesday after residents and businesses had to be evacuated Monday. The organization operates a large youth baseball complex not far from where the fire was raging at the foot of the Smoky Mountains.

Wildfire season bears down with July and a Baltimore County man has revived a tradition of the Pacific Northwest to defend his cattle ranch in Oregon. Tim Roberts hired Maryland cabinetmakers to replicate a 1930s fire lookout tower. He trucked the cabin across country. Now he's raising it four stories by crane to spot smoke and look mountaintops in the eye.

Deputy state marshals say they have charged a 12-year-old boy with arson in connection with fires that engulfed two sheds on East Spring Meadow Court in Edgewood at 5:30 p.m. Monday.

26 units respond to Loch Raven brush fire Friday afternoon

A carport fire turned into a brush fire after the flames spread to a few surrounding trees Thursday.

It took Carroll and Baltimore County firefighters two hours to contain a large wood fire in a remote location off Hampstead-Mexico Road on Tuesday afternoon, working in muddy and dangerous conditions, according to fire officials.

Twenty Maryland wildland firefighters were greeted by the state's natural resources secretary at the Madonna Ranger Station near Jarrettsville Tuesday morning, as they turned in their gear following two weeks of fighting wildfires in Northern California.

Firefighters from Baltimore and Harford Counties are working to contain a significant field and woods fire in the Fallston area.

Fire companies from northern Harford County, Cecil County and southern York County, Pa., are battling a multi-alarm brush fire in the Street area of Harford Thursday afternoon.

West Friendship Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Mark Miller went to aid the fire-stricken residents of Idaho last summer.

Walk from Camp David to D.C. draws attention to environmental consequences of tar sands oil

As Marylanders await springlike temperatures, a few weather-related risks are on the horizon: the allergy and wildfire seasons.

Stannis' shadow-demon 1; Renly Baratheon 0

Some 100 Joppa residents were evacuated from their homes Sunday afternoon as a brush fire burned just over 18 acres in the area of Dembytown and Trimble roads.

With low humidity, dry brush and gusty winds, there is an "enhanced threat" for wildfires, the National Weather Service cautions in a hazardous weather outlook for Baltimore.

Smoke from a swamp fire more than 200 miles away in Virginia has blown into the area, prompting the officials to advise residents with respiratory illnesses to seek medical attention for any problems.