Californians are by now familiar with how vicious wildfires have become. Fires are not only burning hotter, but they are spreading quicker as well. So how do people know when fire crews gain the upper ...

A firefighter waits for crew members to bring water to douse hot spots off Highway 371 after the Highland fire burned 2,400 acres in rural Riverside County near Temecula on Oct. 31, 2023. (Gina ...

Fire crews battle the Eaton Fire on Wednesday in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) One of the terms that authorities use over and over when discussing wildfires is containment. That’s because ...

As fires rage in Southern California, firefighters are working to get the blazes — which include the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires — under control. The wildfires, spread by strong Santa Ana winds, ...

PHOENIX — Containment of the Dragon Bravo Fire, a destructive wildfire burning on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, has decreased by half over the weekend. The latest incident report on Monday listed ...

IN 1947, Walter Lippmann wrote a small book called The Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy. Based on a series of newspaper columns, it was hardly an endorsement of American strategy in the ...

There comes a point in the unfolding of every epidemic when public-health officials acknowledge that despite their best efforts, an invisible microbial foe has managed to outwit them. That time has ...

The many strategies for improving your bottom line fall into two camps. Either you improve profits by increasing revenue or do it by controlling costs. Cost containment refers to strategies that focus ...

It has been two years since a giant steel shelter was slid into position over Chernobyl's crumbling radioactive ruins. The New Safe Confinement (NSC) was deployed in November 2016 to contain radiation ...

Containment's virus has been stopped. The CW has cancelled the series after one season, TVLine has confirmed. It should be noted that Containment was touted as a limited event series ahead of its ...

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