Australia Wildfires

Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia’s weather an almost Biblical feel this year.

An Oceanside teen learned to sew to help the orphaned animals devastated by the wildfires in Australia.

Twenty Angeles National Forest firefighters returned to Los Angeles Wednesday after spending nearly a month battling the raging wildfires in Australia. The firefighters were deployed on Jan. 6 to assist the Victoria Rural Fire Service, according to the U.S. Forest Service. All of us on the forest, and I know their families, are proud of the hard work our dedicated…

Twenty Angeles National Forest firefighters will return to Los Angeles on Wednesday after spending almost a month battling the raging wildfires in Australia, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday. The firefighters were deployed on Jan. 6 to assist the Victoria Rural Fire Service, according to the USDA’s Nathan Judy and Forest Service spokesman Andrew Mitchell. “All of us...

Los Angeles firefighters were reunited with their family Wednesday after battling wildfires in Australia for a month. Fires across southern Australia have claimed at least 33 human lives and millions of animals since September, destroyed more than 3,000 homes and razed more than 26.2 million acres. Kathy Vara reports for NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020.

Lawmakers have commemorated wildfire victims and praised the heroism of firefighters in Australia’s Parliament as hundreds of protesters rallied outside demanding more policy action on climate change

Australia’s capital and its surrounds have declared a state of emergency because of an out-of-control forest fire burning erratically to its south

The bodies of three U.S. flying firefighters and the cockpit voice recorder from the water bomber in which they died battling Australia’s unprecedented wildfire crisis have been retrieved

Three Americans died Thursday when their aerial water tanker crashed as they were fighting fires in southeastern Australia.

Australia’s forests are burning at a rate unmatched in modern times and scientists say the landscape is being permanently altered as a warming climate brings profound changes to the island continent. Heat waves and drought have fueled bigger and more frequent fires in parts of Australia, so far this season torching some 40,000 square miles (104,000 square kilometers), an area about...

Taylor is part of a group of dogs who are trained to smell koala fur and rescue injured ones from Australi’s brushfires.

Australia’s unprecedented wildfires season has so far charred 40,000 square miles (104,000 square kilometers) of brushland, rainforests, and national parks — killing by one estimate more than a billion wild animals. Scientists fear some of the island continent’s unique and colorful species may not recover. For others, they are trying to throw lifelines....

Where flames have subsided, biologists are starting to...

A baby koala named “Hope” has left his mother’s pouch at Zoo Miami. It is the first baby koala born in captivity at the zoo in 30 years.

Thousands of crafters worldwide are churning out swaddling wraps for bats, hanging enclosures for kangaroos, and cozy pouches for wallabies. They hope to help wildlife harmed in the Australian wildfires. But there’s confusion over whether the items are really needed or will be used.

Ash Graham’s dog, Kozi, wakes him at 8 a.m., eager for his morning walk. Then Graham realizes he was dreaming, and gets up from the one-man tent he’s been sleeping in each night since a wildfire swept through his village on New Year’s Eve.

Crews battling Australia’s wildfires said Sunday that they have been able to turn from defense to offense for the first time in weeks thanks to a break in the weather.

A Pasadena firefighter is expected to fly out Saturday to assist Australia with the unprecedented wildfires on that continent, a city official said Saturday. Firefighter/Paramedic Justin Hester will depart to Australia through Reach Out World Wide from LAX, spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said. He’ll be joined by firefighters from Oregon and Kentucky. “The overall mission is to serve a number...

Wildfires in Australia have ravaged the country, with local firefighters flying south to help. Kim Tobin reported on NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020.

Amid the horrors of the country’s worst bushfires ever, and amid disputes over their cause and fear of what is yet to come, Australians have organized a series of grassroots disaster-relief networks — many through social media — offering a wide range of help to thousands of people who were displaced in recent weeks, NBC News reports. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses…

The wildfires have scorched an area twice the size of the U.S. state of Maryland, killed at least 25 people and destroyed 2,000 homes. The fires, fueled by drought and the country’s hottest and driest year on record, have been raging since September, months earlier than is typical for Australia’s annual wildfire season.