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The wildfires raging in the western United States are not caused by climate change but by “eco-imperialists” who oppose forest management that could prevent natural seasonal fires from becoming massive and destructive wildfires, experts said Thursday on a call with reporters.

Larry Elder, Republican candidate for governor of California, said black and Hispanic Californians want to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).

Firefighters are trying to keep the Caldor wildfire from engulfing the iconic Lake Tahoe recreation area where millions of people visit each year.

Raging wildfires in Sicily and Calabria are being blamed on arsonists, with one Italian mayor offering a five-year tax exemption to those who can identify any of the alleged arsonists behind the fires.

Bishop Giuseppe Marciante of Cefalù publicly “excommunicated” those responsible for devastating wildfires on the Italian island of Sicily in recent weeks.

THRAKOMAKEDONES, Greece (AP) – Wildfires rampaged through Greek forests for yet another day Saturday, threatening homes and triggering more evacuations a day after hundreds of people were plucked off beaches by ferries in a dramatic overnight rescue.

As wildfires rage across much of Greece, police say they are investigating possible arson attacks that may linked to fires in Athens and in Ilia.

The State of California is suffering through a summer of man-made disasters, including wildfires and a sewage discharge, as the Delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps through densely-populated regions.

President Joe Biden’s controversial nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) pushed her husband’s message that firefighters ought to let some houses threatened by wildfires burn, calling the message a “clarion call” last year.

(AFP) — Cyprus said a deadly forest fire that was the worst to hit the island in decades was close to being brought under control Sunday after water bombing by Greek and Israeli aircraft.

CA Gov. Newsom “overstated by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns” to prevent wildfires.

The Los Angeles Fire Department is using the Will Rogers State Beach parking lot as a staging area as it battles a wildfire above the Pacific Palisades neighborhood — the same lot L.A. City Council member Mike Bonin wants to use for homeless shelters.

The Becks were gifted a fully-furnished mobile home on Sunday, after losing their former home during the September wildfires.

Authorities said Monday they have evacuated 400 homes, and temporarily halted Mount Rushmore tourism due to multiple wildfires.

California officials are finally taking a look at reducing the devastating wildfires that have plagued the state for years because of environmentalist opposition to managing forests.

A former firefighter saved both his home and his neighbor’s home in a wildfire in Nevada armed with only a garden hose.

A California man donated 25,000 of his precious baseball card collection to a nine-year-old girl who lost hers due to the wildfires spreading in her region.

A Colorado resident whose cabin near Lake Granby was saved from the recent wildfires got a special surprise on Sunday.

More than 450,000 electricity customers could lose power Sunday evening as the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) pulls the plug to reduce the risk of wildfires in expected high winds.

Supporters of President Trump erected a giant 10-foot Hollywood-like sign along Interstate 405 in Los Angeles on Tuesday, only for it to be torn down by a city crew within hours.

A California firefighter had just finished a 60-hour shift last week when his girlfriend told him a wildfire was threatening her parents’ home.

The statistics of the wildfire season in the western United States are grim: 7.4 million acres have been charred and 40 people have perished. And this year, California’s premier wine industry is also a victim.

Fox News moderator Chris Wallace at the presidential debate on Tuesday prefaced his question to President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden about climate change by implying that the forest fires ravaging the state of California are due to climate change.

The EPA sent a letter to CA Gov. Newsom chiding him for an all-electric vehicle mandate in the state as it struggles with rolling blackouts.

A complex of wildfires north of San Francisco burned more than 42,000 acres, destroyed 52 homes, and remains at zero containment.

A ten-year-old girl in Medford, Oregon, has raised thousands of dollars to help those who lost their homes in the recent Almeda Fire.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who last week surveyed wildfire damage in her state of California, has primarily focused on climate change in the wake of the devastation across her state.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, blasted Democrat policies for enhancing conditions for catastrophic wildfires in his state of California, criticizing progressives such as Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who visited the state last week and largely attributed the tragedy to global warming.

Community members in California are offering much-needed support to a man devastated by the recent wildfires.

A California family has accused Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) of trespassing on their property for a photo opportunity after wildfires ravaged their home.

An anonymous donor pledged to match $150,000 in American Red Cross wildfire relief on the west coast after watching a story on television about a Minnesota resident preparing to fill her disaster relief truck to provide food for those impacted by the fires in Oregon.

At a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining on Wednesday on the destructive wildfires in the western United States and what can be done to mitigate future destruction, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said, despite claims on the left, that poor forest management, not climate change, is to blame.

On a tour of the wildfire devastation in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom praised Kamala Harris for believing climate change caused the blazes.

Smoke from the ongoing wildfires on the West Coast has blown across the continent and has now reached East Coast cities — albeit at high altitudes that do not affect air quality near ground level.

California governor Gavin Newsom wants to blame the wildfires on record-breaking temperatures in LA County. So does Joe Biden; so too does the LA Times which claims that this ‘sizzling summer’ was the ‘Hottest August on Record’ in California. The not-so-subtle implication, of course, is that this is another case of ‘man-made global warming’ putting lives, property and the natural landscape at risk.

Former California Governor Jerry Brown mocked the idea of leaving California in an interview published by the New York Times on Monday, saying that the problems of climate change were global and could not be avoided.