The fire has prompted evacuation orders, warnings and highway closures in San Luis Obispo County about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.

The Madre Fire, which has spread in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, has grown to 70,800 acres and 10 percent of it has been contained, according to CalFire, California’s firefighting agency.

The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.

Crews from multiple central Iowa fire departments battled a large fire at a furniture repair warehouse near Saylor Township.

Cal Fire reported that 300 personnel, four helicopters, 70 engines, two dozers, three water tenders and other crews had been assigned.

Crews are responding to a fire in Yuba County that has prompted evacuation warnings, according the Dobbins Oregon Fire Department.

Forward progress on Lake Fire stopped, evacuation order remains in effect ...

Firefighters battled a brush fire Sunday that burned about 83 acres in Riverside before crews got a handle on it.

Crews battling a vegetation fire in south Redding that burned more than 20 acres Sunday afternoon made good progress on the blaze that had prompted evacuations in nearby neighborhoods.

A two-story house in Sanford caught fire at around 5 p.m. on Friday, the Seminole County Fire Department said. Firefighters responded to the call located on Stargazer Terrace inside the Retreat at ...

Fire ants evolve into a fearsome hybrid: 'Anything can really happen' Researchers thought colder temperatures and higher elevations could stop the march of invasive fire ants.

Titled “Eaton Fire Heroes,” it appears on the scorched remains of a cement wall, what’s left standing of a burned-down Masonic temple in the area.