Hundreds of people remain missing in the wake of a pair of deadly wildfires that have been burning across both ends of California. The two monstrous blazes, which both ignited earlier this month, have claimed at least 84 lives while laying waste to a total area of nearly 400 square miles, according to the California […]
It’s time to give thanks — for hats, heavy coats and central heating. Millions of Americans in the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states will wake up to the coldest Thanksgiving in more than a century, with high winds even threatening the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, meteorologists said Wednesday. The mercury in Philadelphia is expected […]
The EPA has warned that the air in some areas may be hazardous to breathe. As the country’s deadliest wildfire in a century burns through Northern California, smoke-clogged air is flooding into communities across cities throughout the region, forcing people indoors and prompting health warnings. The Camp Fire has so far killed at least 76 […]
Searchers combing through the ruins of the deadliest wildfire in California history found eight more bodies Friday, bringing the number of dead in the Camp Fire to 71 as more than 1,000 people remained unaccounted for. Seven of the eight bodies were found in the town of Paradise, which was all but destroyed in the […]
Thousands of firefighters across California were trying to hold the line on a pair of deadly wildfires as powerful winds picked back up on Sunday, roaring across a state that had seen a slight reprieve overnight. North of Sacramento, the Camp Fire — believed to be the most destructive in state history — had killed […]
Pictures and videos show the devastation wildfires have brought to the state of California this week, forcing thousands of residents to flee the destruction and leaving at least 11 people dead. On Saturday, officials said the Camp Fire that began burning in Paradise, California, on Thursday has destroyed more than 6,700 buildings, mostly homes, making it California’s most […]
US President Donald Trump has accused climate change scientists of having a “political agenda” as he cast doubt on whether humans were responsible for the earth’s rising temperatures. But Mr Trump also said he no longer believed climate change was a hoax. The comments, made during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, come less than […]
The death toll from Hurricane Michael’s devastating march up the East Coast rose to 13 on Friday as the storm lashed Virginia and killed at least five people in the state. The storm was making its way toward the Atlantic Ocean on Friday as a post-tropical cyclone with winds gusting at 65 mph, according to […]
Hurricane Michael remained a very dangerous Category 3 storm Wednesday night, hours after it landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as the strongest hurricane ever to hit that part of the state in recorded history. “The nation has watched as this storm has devastated the Panhandle,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said on Wednesday evening, but he […]
Even though Hurricane Florence has been downgraded to Tropical Storm Florence, it is still dangerous due to its slow-moving pace that is causing torrential rains and heavy flooding. Rescue and response operations are underway Saturday in the Carolinas after Tropical Storm Florence battered homes up and down the coast, killing at least five people and leaving millions of […]
Hurricane Florence could batter parts of coastal North and South Carolina with hurricane conditions for 24 hours or more and bring up to 40 inches of rain in its center, federal emergency officials said Wednesday. The storm was expected to make landfall late Thursday or Friday in coastal North Carolina and then potentially stall churning […]
Ken Graham, director of the National Hurricane Center, doesn’t see anything in Hurricane Florence’s path that will weaken the category 4 hurricane before it makes landfall. As Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm, drove toward the East Coast on Tuesday, lawmakers from three states in the “monster” storm’s path have ordered mass evacuations for more […]
