A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week, gathering information that will be used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning within the state. Additional flights are planned for next week.

At noon, it was black as night. It was May 19, 1780 and some people in New England thought judgment day was at hand. Accounts of that day, which became known as 'New England's Dark Day,' include mentions of midday meals by candlelight, night birds coming out to sing, flowers folding their petals,and strange behavior from animals.

The wildfires in Ordway, Colorado are causing more damage as the small town Ordway has already lost three lives in Colordao.

Police in California say a boy who was playing with matches has confessed to starting one of the wild fires that ravaged part of the state last week.

Firefighters tightened their grip on California's wildfires with the help of cooler weather, but a threat remained of health hazards from choking plumes of smoke over the region.

As California struggles to extinguish some of the state's most devastating forest fires, it has turned to a record number of prisoners for some of the most demanding work.

HP announced that the Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation has made a grant of $2 million to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund for the Southern California wildfires.

In response to the Southern California wildfires, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced mobilized resources for the anticipated largest customer-support and infrastructure-restoration effort in AT&T's California history.

Residents of southern California have begun returning to their homes as emergency crews gradually bring under control many of the bushfires that have devastated the region.

Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today announced that the Company has committed $1.5 million to support relief and recovery efforts after this week's devastating wildfires in San Diego County.

1,000,000 flee homes in California due to wildfires; over 500,000 ordered to evacuate

The catastrophic fires that are sweeping Southern California are consistent with what climate change models have been predicting for years, experts say, and they may be just a prelude to many more such events in the future – as vegetation grows heavier than usual and then ignites during prolonged drought periods.