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.

“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.

Heavy smoke blanketed the Carolina Forest area, a community just west of Myrtle Beach where the largest fire raged across 1,600 acres, and visibility in the area was “very low,” the Horry ...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Hundreds of firefighters and first responders were seen coming in and out of Carolina Forest area neighborhoods Sunday, taking turns fighting a massive fire.

Jaxson Bazinet sprays a water hose on the remnants of a fire that burned close to his home on Wyandot Ct. in Carolina Forest. Evacuations continued over night for communities in the Carolina ...