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On the afternoon of April 11, 2023, a large-scale industrial fire impacted a recycling processing facility and its surrounding area in Richmond, Indiana, United States.. The facility, a former industrial plant, had already been designated as a fire hazard after inflammable materials were located near the property line of the building; an excessive amount of plastic was stored at the facility as w
12 firefighters who parachuted near the fire and 1 forest ranger died after being overtaken by a 200-foot wall of fire at the top of a gulch near Helena, Montana. 1950: 3,500,000 acres (1,400,000 ha) Chinchaga Fire: British Columbia and Alberta: Largest single North American fire on record. The B.C. portion was just 90,000 ha. [38] 1953: 1,300 ...
Peshtigo Fire, 1871; most loss of life in a US wildfire. Great Fire of 1910 in the US; shaped 20th-century wildfire policy; 1988 Yellowstone wildfires; 2011 Texas wildfires; 2012 Oklahoma wildfires; 2013 Beaver Creek Fire in Idaho. 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire; 2016 Nevada wildfire [32] October 2017 Northern California wildfires; 2018 Camp Fire; 2018 ...
In October, the state's Department of Fire Service recorded 200 wildland fires, a 1,200% increase from the month's average total of 15 fires. Modest rain in Northeast forecast
Wildfire smoke map: Track fires and ref flag warnings across the US. Active fires in New Mexico. Penn Scott Fire: Unknown. South Fork Fire: 20 acres. Antone Fire : 12,396 acres. Indios Fire ...
Firefighters faced the Bridge Fire as the Line and Airport fires have set a total of 62,323 acres ablaze. The Line fire , which started on Sept. 5, is 38,804 acres and is 42% contained.
The Hog Fire was a wildfire that broke out on July 18, 2020, from an unknown cause near Susanville, the county seat of Lassen County, California. Within the first few days, the fire quickly spread to over 8,000 acres. [2] Hog grew to a mere 9,564 acres, before it was fully extinguished on August 17, 2020.
As of Sunday morning, firefighters have contained 42% of the wildfire, according to Cal Fire. A helicopter battles the Franklin Fire in Malibu, California, U.S., December 11, 2024.