If you noticed a strange haze to the sky today, you are not alone. Chicago, and the entire upper Midwest region, is seeing the smoke from the California, Washington and Oregon wildfires drift into our atmosphere. Late in the day Sunday, smoke from western U.S. fires had drifted over northern IL and northwest IN and […]
Since September 2019, Australia has been battling bushfires — something that is not uncommon during their hot and dry summers. What is abnormal about this fire season — right at the start of one of their hottest and driest summers — is the intensity and devastation of these 126 individual fires: 24 people have been killed, including […]
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The raging wildfires in Northern and Southern California have displaced hundreds of thousands of people, ravaged homes, and so far, 44 people are confirmed dead. In what is now the deadliest wildfire in California history, the Camp Fire devastated the entire town of Paradise and the recovery process will be long and difficult. Embed from […]
