Installing them in the house is a good first step, but there’s a lot more to making sure they’re effective if a fire ignites.

BOULDER, Colo. — 2021 was another year filled with massive fires. Records were set in both California and Colorado – with fires igniting all over the western U.S. Nearly a thousand homes burned to the ...

As wind-driven wildfires spread through the Los Angeles area in January 2025, fire-spotting technology and computer models were helping firefighters understand the rapidly changing environment they ...

SEEING HERE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. MARCY. GERRY. THIS MEAN? THE RED CROSS SAYS IN PART, THIS UPTICK IS DUE TO INCREASED COOKING AND HEATING AROUND THE HOLIDAYS. THEY SAID ON AVERAGE, 1700 PEOPLE ...

In June, 2012, hundreds of homes in Mountain Shadows, Colorado, a subdivision in the foothills of the Rockies, were reduced to ash during the wind-whipped Waldo Canyon Fire. On a cul-de-sac called Hot ...