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Evacuation orders and warnings remain in place as the blaze burns at 20% containment in El Dorado and Placer counties.

LOS ANGELES — The Mosquito fire in Northern California continued to burn into historically dry fuels on Wednesday, growing close to 60,000 acres. It is poised to surpass the McKinney fire as the largest blaze to burn in California this year.

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Forest Service is resuming its prescribed burning program with new rules that it says will minimize the risk of fires escaping control and damaging communities. The announcement comes after a 90-day pause prompted by a pair of escaped burns that merged into the largest wildfire…

Hundreds of firemen have been deployed in the Gironde region south of the city of Bordeaux to fight a blaze which has already destroyed 1,300 hectares of forest and forced the evacuation of several hundred people.

New wildfires raging in southwestern France have torn through over 1,000 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of residents amid record temperatures for September

A wildfire is raging in southwestern France, destroying four houses, burning 1,300 hectares and forcing the evacuation of 540 people in an area already hit this summer by huge blazes.

Massive Oregon blaze threatens more than 2,000 homes as drought, extreme heat spark fires across western United States.

PLACER COUNTY, Calif. — High humidity and weak winds in the El Dorado National Forest over the weekend are helping firefighters battling the Mosquito fire make the first steps in containing a blaze that has now been raging for close to a week.

Gusty winds and dry conditions starting in the middle of last week propelled the fire from 18,000 acres to 86,000, prompting evacuations and power outages as firefighters worked to control the blaze.