Investigators have determined the cause of a wildfire that injured a firefighter and prompted mandatory evacuations east of ...

Wildfires have started from glass bottles, gender reveal explosives, target shooting, vehicle sparks and other unusual ignition sources.

A single spark can be all it takes. Most wildfires in the United States are caused by people, while weather conditions often make those fires spread faster and grow more dangerous, according to ...

As two major wildfires continue to ravage southern Georgia, state officials and investigators said Friday the blazes may have been sparked by two unnatural events, one of which involved a wayward ...

FOR MORE UPDATES ON THE WILDFIRE, GO TO THIS STORY. A small woods fire that began around Barclay Road in Boiling Spring Lakes on Friday, May 2, has now burned more than 1,000 acres. First responders ...

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Often considered more a problem for Western North America, wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent and damaging in the East, such as last week’s blaze that destroyed dozens of homes in Georgia, ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. Two fast-moving wildfires in South Georgia have destroyed more ...

In Europe, heat and drought led to fires across the Mediterranean area that killed 28 people and displaced more than 120,000, according to the new study. Analysts are still assessing the economic ...