At least 27 people were confirmed dead, including a pilot of a firefighting helicopter which crashed yesterday. Hundreds of ...

Wildfires continue to sweep across the Carolinas, scorching more than 17,600 acres and triggering widespread evacuations.

The Black Cove Fire has burned 3,000 acres, the Deep Woods Fire 3,231 acres and Fish Hook Fire 199 acres. A new blaze, the ...

Forest fires continued to devour wilderness and threaten communities in three mountainous prefectures on March 1 as authorities ordered more areas to evacuate. In Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture ...

Images shared by authorities showed smoke rising from a dry forest, where the fire had spread rapidly ... media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider ...

In the two affected districts, the forest fires reached a total of eight communities by Thursday afternoon. The city's hazard map shows that all these communities were devastated by a tsunami that ...

The largest of them, in the Carolina Forest area near Myrtle Beach, has spread over 2,000 acres. Efforts were underway to contain the active fires in the Carolinas. Here are maps illustrating the ...

Forest fires have been reported in the Japanese prefectures of Nagano and Yamanashi in addition to the fires in the city of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A mountain forest fire ...