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Southern California Edison equipment blamed for 2025 Eaton fire in Los Angeles

By Amy Taxin, Associated Press

SoCal Edison has claimed in lawsuits earlier this year that Los Angeles County agencies failed to send timely evacuation warnings to residents in east and west Altadena.

Man charged with setting largest Spokane wildfire went to prison for killing father

By Lindsey Wasson, Associated Press

A man who went to prison for manslaughter in his father’s 2010 killing in Arizona has been charged with intentionally setting the largest of the wildfires wreaking havoc on Washington state’s second-largest city.

Wildfires destroy hundreds of buildings, displace tens of thousands in Washington state

By Andrew Merlis, Ryan Connelly Holmes

Firefighters are battling a series of blazes that began this weekend in Washington state and are continuing to burn in and around Spokane, the state’s second most populous city. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced and hundreds of…

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Europe's hot, dry summer takes its toll with fires in France and Greece, and drought in the UK

By Derek Gatopoulos, Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

Wildfires west of Athens jumped containment lines, a day after a midair collision between two helicopters killed two crew members.

Washington state fires destroy hundreds of structures and force Spokane-area residents to evacuate

By John Hanna, Lindsey Wasson, Associated Press

Light winds and lower temperatures are in the forecast to help firefighters with wildfires in eastern Washington state that have forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area.

Eastern Washington fires have burned 600 structures and forced the evacuation of 5,000 homes

By John Hanna, Associated Press

The fires burned more than 8.2 square miles around Spokane, the second largest city in Washington, and were among dozens across the western U.S. — stretching the ability of federal, state and local agencies to fight them.

2 killed when firefighting helicopters collide near Athens as Europe's wildfire emergency rages

By Elena Becatoros, Thomas Adamson, Associated Press

The four crew members were recovered after the collision, the Greek fire department said, adding that two were recovered safely, while the other two were unconscious.

Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculate

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Climate change's fingerprints are all over the extreme fire weather that sparked this week's devastating wildfires in Spain and France and has spiked Southern Europe's burning the past eight years, two new studies conclude.

Wildfires near Bordeaux threaten to squeeze France's struggling wine industry

By Eva Van Dam, Jamey Keaten, John Leicester, Associated Press

Bordeaux’s legendary wine has seen consumption plunge as young people turn to other beverages and competition from vineyards abroad has grown, while Trump’s tariffs have given winemakers an added hangover.

Climate-fueled wildfires in Europe push emergency response to the limit

By Amna Nawaz, Karina Cuevas, Katie Marlow

Crews are battling to control wildfires that have spread rapidly across parts of Europe, forcing the evacuation of more than 330,000 people in France, Spain and Portugal. Fifteen deaths have been reported and nearly half a million acres have burned.

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