The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Park fire has burned 239,000 acres, with an official telling CBS it was spreading at a rate of 4,000 to 5,000 acres an hour

Hundreds of firefighters from as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Africa are being deployed to western Canada to help fight wildfires while a major fire has damaged a third of the structures in the picturesque town of Jasper.

Town council of Jasper says about 32 percent of structures in the town had been destroyed in the wildfire.

Canadian officials say a wildfire in Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies this week has destroyed more than 350 structures but all of the critical infrastructure is intact

Ronnie Dean Stout II, 42, was seen shoving the smouldering vehicle down a 60-foot gully in Chico, California, authorities said

Danielle Smith and her government’s refusal to combat global heating is said to have made blazes more intense

Authorities say a Northern California wildfire that has tripled in size in one day was started by a man who pushed a burning car into a gully

At least 25,000 people have been forced to evacuate

Suspect allegedly pushed burning car into gully which started Park fire as other fires scorch Pacific north-west

An "out of control" wildfire has devoured up to half of the main town in western Canada's popular Jasper National Park, authorities said Thursday, with 400 foreign firefighters called in to help battle the blaze.

A rapidly spreading wildfire burns through part of the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies as satellites track its growth and movement.