As a devastating wildfire burned through a Maui town, killing more than 100 people, emergency management employees traded dozens of text messages, creating a record that would later help investigators piece together the government’s response to the 2023 tragedy. One text exchange hinted officials might also be using a second, untraceable messaging service. “That’s what…
Tucked beneath snow-capped mountains in Montana, the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory is unlike any other lab in the country. It’s where scientists are starting fires to better understand how they burn — and how to manage them. The U.S. Forest Service built the fire sciences lab in 1960, inspired by a forest fire that killed…
Wildfire researchers replicate “firenado” and other fire conditions in Montana lab – CBS News Watch CBS News Tucked beneath snow-capped mountains in Missoula, Montana, there’s a laboratory unlike any other in the country, where scientists are starting fires to better understand how they burn and how to manage them. Carter Evans has more on the…
Celebrities who live in Charleston, South Carolina, will likely remain unimpacted by the wildfires that ignited across the state over the weekend. Why It Matters More than 175 fires were burning in South Carolina on Sunday, prompting Governor Henry McMaster to declare a state of emergency. Since then, nearly all of the fires have been…
The billionaire Jeff Bezos sat inside the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Saturday night with his fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, who carried a silver purse in the shape of a spaceship. Earlier that week Mr. Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, had made news for pushing the paper’s opinion section to embrace “personal…
Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after killing at least one person, damaging dozens of homes and prompting evacuation orders for thousands of residents, fire officials said. The roughly 1,800-hectare (4,500-acre) fire has been burning for days in Ofunato, a…
German reinsurance giant Munich Re said Wednesday that last month’s huge wildfires in Los Angeles had been the costliest “in the history of the insurance industry”. Los Angeles wildfires costliest in history: Munich Re Munich Re, which acts as an insurer for insurers, said it expected some 1.2 billion euros in loss claims from the…
Firefighters in Cape Town on Wednesday were battling a wildfire that broke out in Table Mountain National Park and spread overnight toward the city, local authorities said. The wildfire has burned for several days in the Newlands area, high in the mountainous slopes of the park, but strong gusting winds pushed it toward Cape Town’s…
Project:Camp in Los Angeles may look like a typical kid’s camp, with everything from arts and crafts to jump rope, but there’s more at play. Every child at the camp has been impacted by the recent wildfires. Like 9-year-old Rose McCabe, whose Altadena school burned to the ground, leaving only the sign still standing. “There…
Examining the aftermath of the Los Angeles area wildfires – CBS News Watch CBS News The firestorm that swept through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods of Los Angeles County a month ago leveled more than 16,000 structures. The complex cleanup and recovery process is underway, and it’s not without major challenges. Elise Preston has…