Northeast under most significant October wildfire threat in years

Fire Weather Warnings now cover 35 million people across all of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, the New York City metro area and Long Island through Saturday evening.

Colorado highway closed after rattlesnakes slow efforts to fight fire

Colorado officials say loose rocks and rattlesnakes are hindering firefighters’ efforts in Clear Creek Canyon after lightning ignited a wildfire.

Smokey Bear turns 80: Here's how the fictional face of fire prevention was born

Smokey Bear, the fictional face of forest fire prevention, is celebrating 80 years. It's the longest running and most successful advertising campaign in American history.

North Texas fire crews battle massive California wildfire

Two dozen first responders from Fort Worth, Allen, McKinney, Greenville and Parker County were sent to battle the Park Fire in California.

Study: Wildfire smoke may be worse for your brain than other air pollution

Research shows wildfire smoke significantly raises dementia risk, with a 21% increase per 1 microgram of PM2.5, compared to other air pollution.

North Texas firefighters head to California to battle wildfires

Firefighters battling a large wildfire in northern California will get help from several North Texas fire departments.

Wildfire smoke pours across America bringing haze from coast to coast

Hundreds of wildfires burning across the western U.S. and Canada are spewing dense smoke that is being carried hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away.

North Texas musician's home destroyed in New Mexico wildfires

A former Fort Worth resident described the feeling of turning away from his new home in New Mexico as he watched it burn down.

At least 2 dead, over 1,400 structures burned as New Mexico wildfires rage

The wildfires have scorched more than a combined 23,000 acres of tribal and government lands surrounding the village of Ruidoso in south-central New Mexico and the Mescalero Apache Reserve.

Canada’s wildfire season prompts air quality alerts in US

An evacuation alert was issued for Fort McMurray in Alberta as crews responded to what they described as an "out-of-control wildfire."

Largest wildfire in Texas history now fully contained

The Smokehouse Creek Fire scorched 1,058,482 acres in the Texas Panhandle and portions of Oklahoma, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.

North Texans rally to help ranchers feed starving cattle in wildfire-stricken panhandle

About 65 tons of feed has been collected and will be shipped off in big rigs to the panhandle. All of it is for the thousands of heads of cattle that survived the fires but are starving.

Drying trend threatens already scorched Texas Panhandle

Fire officials are worried that dryer conditions in the Panhandle could lead to new wildfires in the region.