The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

The bereaved, survivors and locals to receive damages relating to 2017 tragedy in west London

A coronial inquiry into one of the devastating Black Summer bushfires is due to resume following months of delays.

Last year, 66,255 wildfires erupted in the U.S., burning through more than 7.3 million acres from California to the Florida Panhandle. It was the most fires since 2017, and those were the ones that were reported. The final count is bound to be higher.

Fire crews from across Tasmania's north-west have been called in to help save some of the state's most significant heritage railway infrastructure after fire broke out at the Don River Railway.

The blaze tore through 500 square metres of marshland

The fire destroyed a large patch of marshland in the beauty spot

The lush region of Asturias in northern Spain was ravaged by more than 90 wildfires on Friday, most of them believed to have been started by arsonists whom the region's leader called "fire terrorists".

(This March 30 story has been refiled to remove incorrect temperature conversion in paragraph 7)

LOS ANGELES — For most Californians, the sight of aircraft spewing neon pink liquid over flaming trees and brush has become a hallmark of aggressive wildfire suppression campaigns — if not a potent symbol of government's struggle to control increasingly destructive forest fires.