As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon's North Rim in July 2025, the air turned toxic.

In 2017, the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, California, exposed a new threat to public health: Wildfires can contaminate drinking ...

One resident was home when the fire began, Lowenthal said, but there were no injuries. Neighbors said the home was barely spared in the Tubbs Fire, which killed 22 people and destroyed 4,600 homes ...

Statistics also show the Tubbs fire burned 94 commercial buildings and damaged 23 more. It destroyed 897 secondary buildings, such as sheds and barns, and damaged another 63.

The Tubbs Fire burned over 34,000 acres since it ignited and began its fearsome charge through Napa County Sunday night. In its path, the fire has razed hundreds of homes, businesses, wineries and ...

Tubbs said the fire started when her sister was cooking fries on the stove. The Cincinnati Fire Department estimated the home suffered around $100,000 worth of damage.

In 2017, they did as much damage as all the wildfires in the prior 16 years, according to some estimates. That record stood for less than a year before it last November's disasters eclipsed it.

Upton said fire whirls, also known as fire tornadoes, probably happened in all the North Bay fires, but the most destructive evidence was found in Santa Rosa neighborhoods flattened by the Tubbs ...