This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The sun is still ... leap out of a plane to fight a backcountry forest fire. A Fire Boss plane dumps water to aid a ...

A new map of wildfire risk in New Jersey shows the state at a high to extreme risk of fires as blazes continue.

The East Humboldt and Ruby Mountains Fuels Reduction and Landscape Resilience Project would help the mountainous ecosystems ...

The fire, which started Monday afternoon, has grown to 35 acres, according to New Jersey Forest Fire Service. Clearstream ...

ARCHBALD, Pa. — Deep in the woods, fire crews were using off-road vehicles to haul in water any way they could to battle a forest fire that started early Thursday morning in Archbald.

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. When an editor called ... nights to capture the magical scene in the forest. Tripod in hand, I hiked with my colleagues ...

LAUGHLINTOWN, Pa. (KDKA) -- With the lack of rain drying out much of Pennsylvania, the fire threat is high across the Commonwealth. On Monday, a brush and forest fire broke out in Cook Township ...

A large brush brush fire at a forest reserve on the Drew University campus in Madison on Saturday was brought under control by 1 p.m., the borough reported, adding that all personnel have been ...