Even if you don't live in an area where wildfires are typical, it's important to know how to protect your health.

Called the Hughes Fire, flames erupted around 10:30 a.m., quickly triggering evacuation orders in neighboring Los Angeles County and sending smoke billowing into local areas. Gusty north to ...

But, with hundreds of thousands of L.A. residents forced to evacuate their homes, the next best thing is a face mask or respirator to help avoid inhaling dangerous smoke particles. As we saw with ...

Concerning video shows firefighting helicopters dropping water as flames and smoke billow from the hillside ... Carved Symbols Evacuations after gas main ruptures on Auckland's North Shore ...

The hotel was engulfed in smoke, making it difficult for guests to locate the fire escape ... Meanwhile, a gas explosion at a hotel at another ski resort in central Turkey injured four people.

Firefighters are not engaging the fire and are waiting for it to burn out on its own. It is unknown how long the fire will last. However, as of Saturday, the flames subsided, and the smoke had not ...

So he is well-acquainted with the health risks associated with breathing in wildfire smoke ... carbon lowered the gas concentrations in those first weeks after the fire. But concentrations ...

"People who are going back to these homes should wear N95 masks to protect themselves," said Colleen Reid, a health geographer at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who worked on one of the Marshall ...

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A huge blaze at a massive lithium battery storage plant in Monterey County sent bursts of flame skyward Thursday night and Friday morning, along with a dramatic column of smoke. The fire at the ...

Smoke is visible from a fire at a Moss Landing battery ... Hydrogen fluoride is a hazardous gas that can be emitted by a lithium battery fire, and none of the Vistra’s air monitors had detected the ...

Smoke From Fire at California ... runaway,” meaning it can catch fire and burn very hot, releasing toxic gases. Vistra sells energy to Pacific Gas & Electric, one of the nation’s largest ...