Strong winds blew across mountain slopes after a record-setting warm, dry summer. Small fires began to blow up into huge conflagrations. Towns in crisis scrambled to escape as fires bore down. The ...

Today, we can imagine the smoke – thick and suffocating. We can fathom the flames – causing mountains and towns to glow red at midnight. We can even imagine the heat, enough to peel paint off boxcars.

Of all the classical elements, fire is perhaps the most misunderstood. While its reputation as a force of destruction may be well deserved, it is also a force of regeneration. In forests and ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (KPLC-TV) – It's been 100 years since a fire destroyed seven blocks in downtown Lake Charles. The fire started on a sunny Saturday afternoon on April 23, 1910. The fire began in a ...

Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the 1910 fire, the largest forest fire in American history. The fire burned 3 million acres of timber in northern Idaho and western Montana. 86 people lost their ...

As vast and fast wildfires continue to spread almost unprecedented destruction across America’s three Pacific states, fire scientists, meteorologists and journalists have begun comparing the ...

CHICAGO (CBS/WBBM) --A fire in the South Shore neighborhood that took the lives of two firefighters coincides with the 100th anniversary of the deadliest disaster in Chicago Fire Department history.

HAUGAN, Mont. — A century ago, many of the trees now growing in Montana's mountains were just seedlings. Many were planted after 'The Great Burn of 1910,' when fires raged through three-million acres ...

WALLACE, Idaho – Each year major wildfires in the West are fought like military battles, with firefighters deploying by ground and air, bombers dropping retardant on flames, and incident commanders ...

WALLACE, Idaho – Each year major wildfires in the West are fought like military battles, with firefighters deploying by ground and air, bombers dropping retardant on flames, and incident commanders ...

BILLINGS – More than 1.1 million acres of land burned in Montana during the 2012 fire season, making it the worst fire season since 1910. However, the 2006 season was nearly as bad. The Northern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rocky Mountain fires leave telltale ash layers in nearby lakes like this one. Philip Higuera Strong winds blew across mountain ...