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Meteorologists at PG&E are responsible for identifying days where weather may increase the risk for equipment damage and potential fire starts.

California's bone hunters, forensic experts who are veterans of disaster, sift through Maui's burnfields for the missing dead. 'We owe it to the families.'

<div class="cms-textAlign-center"><i>“And as the summer unfolded, it became evident that it’s not just smoke, and not just Canada. This has been the summer from climate hell all across the Earth, when it ceased being possible to escape or deny what we have done to our planet and ourselves” says Professor Michael Flannigan, of Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, who has been studying the interaction of fire and climate for over 35 years. “Temper...

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For all who wish to answer the call in serving and protecting their communities, a new Fire Science degree program is coming to North Dakota State College of Science.

ST. JOHNSBURY — It was 25 years ago when St. Johnsbury Firefighter Eugene “Geno” McDonough lost his life in the line of duty.

Two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century swept through the Maui community of Lahaina, authorities say more than 800 people remain unaccounted for -- a staggering number that presents huge challenges for officials who are trying to determine how many of those perished and how many may have made it to safety but havent checked in.

Maui authorities say anywhere between 500 and 1,000 people remain unaccounted for two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century destroyed the community of Lahaina. Its

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There are widely varying accounts of the tally of the missing.