2021 Wildfires

News >  Pacific NW

Chasing Joy: After losing everything in the fire, a 90-year-old Malden man finds purpose in returning to treasured land

UPDATED: Sat., Sept. 11, 2021

Jim Jacobs lived with his wife, Joy, in Malden for 26 years. Then the fire of Labor Day 2020 threatened their future. 

News >  Pacific NW

Timeline: The day of the fire in Malden

Sun., Sept. 5, 2021

The morning of Sept. 7, 2020, lived up to the red flag warning issued by the National Weather Service.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Low overnight temperatures help firefighters gain containment on Moscow blaze

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 1, 2021

A fire near Moscow is now partially contained thanks to cooler overnight temperatures.

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News >  Nation/World

California fire approaches Lake Tahoe after mass evacuation

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 31, 2021

A huge firefighting force gathered Tuesday to defend Lake Tahoe from a raging wildfire that forced the evacuation of California communities on the south end of the alpine resort and put others across the state line in Nevada on notice to be ready to flee.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

City of Moscow issues evacuation orders to Idlers Rest, Twin roads residents due to fire

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 30, 2021

An emerging wildfire north of Moscow has the city asking some residents to evacuate immediately.

News >  Nation/World

Massive fire threatens Lake Tahoe, more ordered to flee

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 30, 2021

People were told to flee from a long section of the Lake Tahoe shoreline Monday as a huge forest fire threatened to push into the resort region straddling California and Nevada.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Red Flag warning issued for most of Eastern Washington on Monday

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 30, 2021

A red flag warning was issued for nearly all of Eastern Washington Monday by the National Weather Service.

News >  Nation/World

Winds frustrate effort to corral wildfire near Lake Tahoe

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 27, 2021

Firefighters battling a stubborn California wildfire Friday near the Lake Tahoe resort region faced gusty winds and dry conditions that made vegetation ready to burn.

News >  Nation/World

Gaps in US wildfire smoke warning network leave many exposed

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 26, 2021

Huge gaps between air quality sensors in the western U.S. have created blind spots in the warning system for wildfire smoke plumes sweeping North America this summer, amid growing concern over potential health impacts to millions of people exposed to the pollution.

News >  Nation/World

Crews struggle to stop fire bearing down on Lake Tahoe

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 25, 2021

A California fire that gutted hundreds of homes advanced toward Lake Tahoe on Wednesday as thousands of firefighters tried to box in the flames and tourists who hoped to boat or swim were enveloped in a thick yellow haze of the nation's worst air.