Latest Wildfire Headlines
All the headlines from our Wildfire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Jury Orders Large, First-Ever Wildfire Environmental Damages
Oct 1 2009 // A Los Angeles jury Wednesday ordered two construction companies to reimburse the government for $36.5 million in damages from a 2002 wildfire, in the largest such award and the first-ever damages for environmental harm,...
California Wildfire Victims Want Probe
Sep 30 2009 // People affected by the massive wildfire that burned about 250 square miles northeast of Los Angeles are calling for a federal investigation into what they say was a poor initial response to the blaze. Angry residents of...
California Wildfires Smolder in Low Wind
Sep 28 2009 // https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2009/09/01/103448.htm All but the most remote sections of a pair of major Southern California wildfires were contained Saturday, but officials warned that dangerous fire weather...
California Wildfire Evacuees Urged to File Living Expenses
Sep 25 2009 // California Department of Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner reminded residents who have been evacuated due to the Guiberson Fire (Ventura County) that they may be eligible for reimbursement for additional living expenses...
Fire Rages in Ventura County
Sep 24 2009 // Another fire is raging in Southern California, stoked by the notoriously hot and dry Santa Ana winds, as the state moves into its prime fire season. The fire is in the north of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and north...
California Regulators Nix San Diego Utility’s Wildfire Plan
Sep 21 2009 // California regulators soundly rejected a utility company’s plan to cut electricity to a vast swath of San Diego bedroom communities when the weather is ripe for major wildfires. The California Public Utilities...
L.A. Detectives Ask for Help in Wildfire Probe
Sep 14 2009 // Los Angeles homicide detectives investigating the deadly arson fire burning in the Angeles National Forest want to talk to anyone who made the initial efforts to report the blaze, authorities said Friday. The investigators...
Los Angeles Wildfire Has Destroyed 82 Homes, New Estimate Finds
Sep 11 2009 // Fire officials say a new damage survey shows 82 homes have been destroyed from the blaze burning north of Los Angeles, up four from the previous report. The U.S. Forest Service also increased containment of the fire to 71...
California Wildfire Called Arson
Sep 4 2009 // As of early Friday morning, the Station wildfire that is burning through the hills above Los Angeles was about 40 percent contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention. Fire officials...
Southern California Fire Slowed by Weather
Sep 3 2009 // Firefighters made more progress Wednesday morning against a giant wildfire that has ravaged a national forest north of Los Angeles, with another day of cooperative weather providing a big assist to beleaguered fire...
California Fire Still Rages in L.A. Mountains
Sep 1 2009 // A massive fire in the Angeles National Forest nearly doubled in size overnight, and threatened 12,000 homes Monday in a 20-mile-long swath of flame and smoke and surging toward a mountaintop broadcasting complex and...
Farmers Gives California Fire Victims Assistance Number
Aug 31 2009 // Farmers Insurance Group of Companies asks its customers suffering damage or ordered to evacuate because of the widespread wildfires in Northern and Southern (Los Angeles County areas), to immediately contact Farmers’...
California Wildfires Threaten Thousands of Homes
Aug 31 2009 // A wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles has surged in every direction, going in a single day from a modest threat to a danger to some 10,000 homes. The blaze nearly tripled in size in triple-digit heat Saturday,...
Golfers Help South Carolina Wildfire Victims Who Lacked Insurance
Aug 28 2009 // Golfers teed off on the South Carolina coast to help the victims of a wildfire that scorched hundreds of acres earlier this year. Thursday’s pro-am at Barefoot Resort & Golf in North Myrtle Beach was held to...
RMS Analyzes Greek Wildfires
Aug 26 2009 // A bulletin from Risk Management Solutions notes that over the past 24 hours, the wildfire situation in Athens has greatly improved, but continues to be closely monitored as there is a high risk of further flare-ups. In...
UPDATE – Thousands Flee Raging Wildfires in Greece
Aug 25 2009 // An overnight drop in gale-force winds offered hard-pressed Greek firefighters a brief respite Monday after wildfires raged unchecked for two days north of Athens, burning houses and swathes of forest while forcing...
California Wildfires Called Contained
Aug 25 2009 // Firefighters have surrounded three wildfires that have been burning throughout California for weeks. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says that a wildfire that consumed about 7,800 acres (3,157...
California Fires Expensive, But State Can Cover
Aug 20 2009 // The price tag for fighting California wildfires during just the past few weeks has climbed to more than $60 million, with the fire season’s peak months still looming ahead. But in a state recently forced to make deep...
Report Finds Australia’s Wildfire Warning System ‘Dangerously Flawed’
Aug 20 2009 // A major inquiry into Australia’s wildfire disaster earlier this year has found that warning systems are dangerously flawed, and residents in vulnerable areas need better, faster information to escape quick-moving...
Lloyd’s Assesses Impact of Heat Waves and Wildfires
Aug 19 2009 // The recent series of wildfires that ravaged parts of Spain, France, Greece and Italy in late July may well be symptomatic of the warming trend in global weather patterns according to experts at Lloyd’s of...
