By Hiroko Tabuchi Armed with two garden hoses hooked up to a sputtering tap, Matthew Craig battled fire and smoke to save his house from the onslaught of flames that devastated much of Altadena ...

"All smoke is bad," Rory Hadden, a fire science professor at the U.K.'s University of Edinburgh, told Newsweek. "Any time you see smoke from a fire, that pretty much always means it's got some ...