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Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With numerous wildfires burning across Canada, including about 40 that remain out of control, meteorologists said conditions are stacking up for a replay of last year’s fire season when thick smoke wafted down to the United States, turning the skies over New York City orange and […]
Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Wildfires are expected to worsen across the U.S. and by mid-century, the effects of wildfire smoke could bring startling health risks to 125 million Americans, a newly released study revealed. For decades, the effects of wildfires were felt mainly on the West Coast, however, the dangerous […]
CT757fan/Getty Images If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (NEW YORK) — Five months after wildfires destroyed homes and lives on the Hawaiian island of Maui, residents […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A large portion of the Northeast will experience poor air quality in the coming days due to wildfires burning in Canada, forecasts show. Plumes of smoke from wildfires burning south of James Bay in Canada will push into the Northeast beginning Sunday night and will linger into Tuesday, hazing the […]
Maui County Fire Department (HONOLULU) — The search on land for further victims of the deadly wildfires in Maui is essentially complete, officials told reporters Monday, according to Honolulu ABC affiliate KITV, as crews move to the water in search of possible remaining victims. Officials say they don’t expect the death toll to rise much […]
Paula Ramon/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With dozens of people still unaccounted for, the conflagration that has caused widespread devastation across the Hawaiian island of Maui is now the fifth-deadliest wildland fire in U.S. history. As of Monday night, Maui emergency officials said 99 people have been confirmed dead in the fire, and […]
Courtesy Denny Yuckert (LAHAINA, Hawaii) — A longtime Lahaina resident said he’s “been through hell and back” after he and dozens of his neighbors raced through the deadly wildfires that struck the island, as they waited in the water near the shore for hours before they were rescued. Denny Yuckert, who has lived in the […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — As Canada continues to battle its worst wildfire season on record, toxic smoke has traveled south and is once again blanketing states across the U.S. A total of 18 states are under air quality alerts on Tuesday, stretching from Montana to New York and as far south as Georgia, according […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans are on alert for unhealthy air quality as smoke from wildfires in neighboring Canada drifts to the United States. Wildfires have burned a record of more than 19.5 million acres across Canada so far this year, with no end in sight. There are nearly 500 active wildfires […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans are on alert for unhealthy air quality as smoke from wildfires in neighboring Canada drifts to the United States. Wildfires have burned a record of more than 19.5 million acres across Canada so far this year, with no end in sight. There are nearly 500 active wildfires […]
