Speeding FDNY Truck Hits Ambulance, Killing Patient
A ladder truck racing to a building fire crashed into an ambulance carrying a heart attack victim early Thursday morning in Brooklyn, killing the patient...
Tag : Fires and Firefighters
Wildfires Live Updates: Dry Lightning Could Threaten Western Oregon
Here’s what you need to know: Video Wildfires continue to devastate California and Oregon with vast amounts of thick smoke polluting the air.CreditCredit…Eric Thayer for...
A Desperate Bid for Survival as Fire Closed In on an Oregon Mountain Town
SALEM, Ore. — They were trapped. As walls of fire and smoke encircled their town and blocked the roads, the last people in Detroit, Ore.,...
Wildfires Live Tracker
Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript Southern California Battles Fires The wildfires in California have continued to spread, and forced evacuations...
On the Fire Line, Grueling Work and a Shared Purpose
The basic techniques for fighting wildfires have changed little in decades. Aircraft dropping water and chemicals from the sky, and on the ground bulldozers, adzes,...
Smoke From West Coast Wildfires Spreads to the East Coast
SEATTLE — The billowing wildfire smoke that has blanketed much of the West Coast with a caustic haze also began settling into the atmosphere thousands...
Live Updates: Fires in Oregon, California and Washington
Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript Southern California Battles Fires The wildfires in California have continued to spread, and forced evacuations...
Wildfires Live Updates
Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript ‘It’s the Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen,’ Oregon Resident Says Wildfires continued to burn over...
Australia’s Witnesses to Fire’s Fury Are Desperate to Avoid a Sequel
MERINGO, Australia — On the mountainous South Coast of Australia, spring has begun — which means there are only a few more weeks to prepare...
For Prisoners in the West, the Virus and the Wildfires Are Colliding Threats
As wildfires tore through huge swaths of Oregon this week, prisoners were hurried away from the encroaching flames — not to freedom but to an...