New Mexico Wildfire Leaves 2 Dead and 200 Structures Damaged The victims, an older couple who had tried to evacuate, were found Wednesday inside a burned home in the village of Ruidoso, N.M., the authorities said.
PG&E agrees to pay $55 million in penalties and costs over two wildfires. The California utility settled civil charges and avoided criminal prosecution over the role of its equipment in igniting the blazes.
Fire Chief Killed While Responding to Nebraska Wildfire Chief Darren Krull of the Elwood Volunteer Fire Department died in a car crash during a fire that has scorched some 30,000 acres in two days.
A Third of Americans Faced Extreme Weather in Recent Years, Survey Finds Hurricanes and winter weather, such as snow, ice storms and blizzards, were the most common events cited, according to a Gallup poll.
California’s Drought Is Worse Than We Thought Our tools for managing water in the West are growing more inaccurate.