FireSat, the Google-backed satellite constellation initiative for wildfire detection, achieves a new milestone.

Google has partnered with numerous other agencies to launch FireSat, a first-of-its-kind wildfire detection system.

The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building regulations focused on fire safety. While the new regulations may eventually lower insurance premiums for some homeowners ...

As of last Saturday, Wetaskiwin County requires fire permits for all fires, with the exception of a campfire or burning barrel.

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The largest fire in the Upstate is a nearly 500-acre blaze near Landrum in Polk County along the South Carolina-North Carolina that has required evacuations and was 30% contained as of the morning ...

The Observatory narrowly escaped being consumed by wildfire as fire crews worked overnight to beat back flames in the foothills above east San Jose. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) New maps ...

The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building regulations focused on fire safety. While the new regulations may eventually lower insurance premiums for some homeowners, the ...