TOASTED COAST Wildfires rage along the Californian coast north of Los Angeles. (Photo: Jonathan Alcorn / Reuters via The Guardian)
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A kangaroo flees across a road from a bushfire in south-eastern Victoria state, Australia. Record high temperatures continue to affect parts of the country. (Photo: Australian Broadcasting Corporation via Reuters / The Telegraph)
SOME HELL Tammy Holmes and her grandchildren took refuge under a wooden jetty as a wildfire raged near their home in Dunalley, Tasmania, Australia, Jan. 4. “We saw tornadoes of fire just coming towards us,” prompting the family to find cover, said grandfather Tim Holmes, who snapped this iconic photo thinking the childrens’ mother would never see them again. They spent nearly three hours in the water; all survived. No deaths have been reported from the wildfires which have ravaged the country in recent days. (Photo: Tim Holmes via the Associated Press / Wall Street Journal)
A fire glows from the hills above San Gabriel mountains in the Angeles National Forest, California. Officials say the wildfire, which has already consumed more than 3,600 and led to four injuries, could burn for another week. (Photo: Gene Blevins / Reuters via The Telegraph)
A thick plume of smoke from an intense wildfire on the Greek island of Chios can be seen drifting southward over the island of Crete. (Photo: NASA via Rex Features / The Telegraph)
Lone house survives wildfires near Cle Elum, WA.
President Obama listened to firefighters talk about battling wildfires in a neighborhood that was burned in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Friday. Officials say the 17,000-acre blaze is about 25% contained; residents have been allowed back into some areas previously closed off. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times)
Smoke rose around Rampart Reservoir from the Waldo Canyon wildfire near Colorado Springs, Colo., Wednesday. At least one person has died and more than 340 homes have been destroyed. (Photo: John Wark / Reuters via The Wall Street Journal)
Several fires explode across Front Range
A three-day-old wildfire erupted with catastrophic fury Tuesday, ripping across the foothills neighborhoods of Colorado Springs, devouring an untold number of homes and sending tens of thousands fleeing to safety in what was shaping up as one of the biggest disasters in state history. “This is a firestorm of epic proportions,” said Colorado Springs Fire Chief Richard Brown. Read the full story…
SMILES AWAY A water tower stood in an area that was destroyed by wildfire in Bastrop, Texas, Wednesday. The central Texas fire has destroyed hundreds of homes and killed at least two people. (Photo: Eric Gay / AP via the Wall Street Journal)
TO HELL A wildfire burns out of control in Bastrop State Park near Bastrop, about 30 miles outside Austin, Texas on Sept. 5. The fire burned about 17,500 acres and was one of dozens that crews were battling throughout the drought-stricken state. (Photo: Larry W. Smith / EPA via MSNBC.com)
CHARFIGHT A fire truck drives past trees burned during the Las Conchas fire in Los Alamos, N.M., on Thursday, June 30. Firefighters were confident Thursday they had stopped the advance of the wildfire that headed toward the Los Alamos nuclear lab and the nearby town that now sits empty for the second time in 11 years, even as they battled the blaze that crept into a canyon that descends into the town and parts of the lab. (Photo: Jae C. Hong / AP via MSNBC.com)
SCORCHED EARTH The so-called Wallow Fire burns in the White Mountains west of Springerville, Arizona, on Wednesday, June 8. The wildfires have destroyed more than 603 square miles of trees, vegetation and property and has forced thousands to flee. (Photo: David Wallace / AP via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
FIRE WITH FIRE Deliberately-set “controlled burns” were set this weekend on mountains around McDonald Observatory in west Texas to help prevent the spread of wildfires, which began last week across the state. To date, 22 separate fires have burned millions of acres: “We’re actually seeing Texas burn from border to border,” said a Texas Forest Service spokeswoman. Firefighters from 34 states are helping to battle the blazes, which now collectively cover an area the size of Rhode Island. (Photo: Frank Cianciolo / McDonald Observatory via the Daily Mail)
