Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette says that despite several heavy rains and snowfalls over the winter New Jersey is still under a drought warning entering peak wildfire season.

The U.S. Forest Service built the fire sciences lab in 1960, inspired by a forest fire that killed 13 firefighters. The facility includes a 66-foot-high combustion chamber that allows for intense ...

In New Mexico, the Gila National Forest near Silver City and the Lincoln National Forests near Alamogordo are experiencing "a dryness component more comparable to peak fire season than early March," ...

“They also called in a helicopter to attempt to stop the fire spreading.” The fire darkened the forest bed around Wojteckai’s property, as flakes of ash could be seen falling from the sky.