Wildfires

Eight months after those terrible Maui wildfires claimed more than 100 lives, some survivors are still living in tents.

The Smokehouse Creek Wildfire in the Texas Panhandle claimed the life of a second victim on Thursday. What is now the second-largest fire in U.S. history has consumed approximately 1.1 million acres — an area larger than the state of Rhode Island — and is less than five percent contained at last report.

Firefighters in the Texas Panhandle recovered the remains of 83-year-old Joyce Blankenship in her home which burned in the largest wildfire in Texas history. Officials report the fire consumed more than one million acres and is only three percent contained.

The Smokehouse Creek Wildfire in the Texas Panhandle spread to cover more than 500,000 acres on Wednesday, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. Officials report the fire is zero percent contained at this point.

Canadian officials are reportedly monitoring “zombie” wildfires continuing to rage under the snow in late January, the National Post reported on Monday, which threaten to erupt with force in the spring and could potentially lead to another record-breaking year of fires.

A man from Quebec has pled guilty to starting 14 forest fires that forced hundreds of Canadians to flee their homes last summer.

Smoke from Canada’s still-burning wildfires once again drifted across the border into the northern United States this week, prompting smoke and haze advisories until Wednesday, although the air quality remained much higher than it was during Canadian wildfire smoke plumes this summer.

Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson are facing backlash after urging the public to give money to help victims of the Maui wildfires, while they themselves jointly donated just $10 million — a tiny fraction of their enormous wealth.

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers show how misdirected incentives, governmental corruption and incompetence, made the wildfire disaster on Maui worse but inevitable.

The largely U.S.-funded war in Ukraine costs approximately $100 million a day — more than the $95 million President Joe Biden wants to send to Maui after the most fatal fire in the nation’s history in over a century.

Three hundred eighty-five people remain missing after the devastating Maui fires, authorities updated Friday as recovery efforts continue.

The Chinese Communist Party’s state television network CGTN published a video on Friday blaming “colonialism” for the ongoing devastation in Maui, Hawaii, where wildfires are believed to have left hundreds dead and devastated the historic town of Lahaina in August.

President Joe Biden is asking Congress to approve $24 billion more in aid for Ukraine, which would bring the total amount of U.S. taxpayer-funded aid to Ukraine since February 2022 to $135 billion.

Maui search crews have allegedly found over 450 bodies, according to a local resident who is leading a grassroots relief effort to aid victims of the fire that decimated the town of Lahaina earlier this month.

A Maui resident told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that President Joe Biden’s visit to Hawaii made things worse.

Two people have died in the fires ravaging Louisiana as residents and leaders are desperate for rain to help quell the blazes.

A local resident who has led grassroots relief efforts in Maui told Breitbart News in a recent exclusive interview the Maui police chief’s claim that officers tried to evacuate people is a “total lie.”

Greek fire department officials arrested two men on Saturday for allegedly deliberately starting wildfires blamed for 21 deaths.

A Hawaii company gave President Joe Biden (D) a harsh reality check after he compared a small fire at his home to the devastating fires in Maui.

Roughly 1,000 to 1,100 individuals are still unaccounted for in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires, according to island officials.

Evidence suggests the heartbreaking Maui wildfire was preventable. That should enrage the Democrat voters of Hawaii. I fear it will not.

More than 100 FEMA workers are reportedly staying in five star hotels in Maui, as thousands of people are homeless due to the wildfires.

British Columbia, Canada, urged residents of wildfire-affected areas to stop taking hoses, sprinklers, and other firefighting gear.

Nolte: We have over 100 Americans dead in Maui, and Joe Biden continues to cruelly bungle the response at every level.

Over 800 people are missing in the aftermath of the wildfires in Hawaii’s Maui, as the death toll reaches 115.

President Joe Biden waded through the aftermath of the wildfires in Maui where he appeared to joke about the “hot ground.”

Maui’s wildfires have claimed the lives of at least 114 people, have left more than 1,000 missing, and have destroyed around 2,000 buildings, but churches across the Hawaiian island have brought light to a dark and dire situation.

A mother and daughter are praising a man for his quick thinking as wildfires closed in around them on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

The wildfires that have ravaged the Spanish tourist island of Tenerife were a result of arson, a local official has admitted.

Authorities ordered an entire community to evacuate Friday as a wildfire burned in Washington state, leaving devastation in its wake.

Canadians complained the price of airline tickets skyrocketed as wildfires closed in on the Northwest Territories capital of Yellowknife.

Herman Andaya, the head administrator for the Maui Emergency Management Agency, resigned from his position just shortly after questions erupted about his handling of the wildfire disaster.

Herman Andaya, chief of the Maui Emergency Management Agency, is coming under increasing scrutiny for his response to the Maui wildfires.

A Canadian family fled home in a melting car as wildfires ravaged the Northwest Territories and closed in on the capital of Yellowknife.

A state water agency in Hawaii has been accused of delaying the release of water from a traditional farm that landowners reportedly wanted to use to protect their property as the Maui wildfire spread last week.

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Hawaiian Electric, the biggest power supplier in the state, focused on shifting to renewable energy sources to combat climate change, rather than spending money to address fire risk around its power lines.