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A vast swath of a vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke.

Chances are you’ve seen a pyrocumulus cloud if you live in an area prone to wildfires. But how does it form, and what can it tell us about a fire? NBC Boston’s Matt Noyes explains.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state was battling “367 known fires” earlier this week.

The Hennessey Fire burning in Napa County is one of several fires burning as part of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire.

The Los Angeles Fire Department evacuated residents on Wednesday morning after a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Fire alarms have been sounding in high-rise buildings across downtown Sydney and Melbourne as dense smoke from distant wildfires confuse electronic sensors. Modern government office blocks in the Australian capital Canberra have been closed because the air inside is too dangerous for civil servants to breathe.

Smoke haze and poor air quality caused by wildfires temporarily suspended practice sessions for the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Tuesday, but qualifying began later in the morning in “very poor” air quality.

Crews responded to multiple manhole fires in Boston Monday morning, blocking access to a busy intersection. Police said the fires were reported in the area of 60 School St. sometime before 7 a.m. At the scene, crews uncovered a manhole and smoke emitted from underground. The immediate area was blocked off until further notice in the area of Tremont Street….

Crews responded to three manhole fires in a busy downtown Boston intersection.

The wildfire was behaving erratically last week, and Doug Schutz and his team needed to make a quick decision. So they moved a bulldozer from another job and used it to widen a firebreak. That likely helped prevent hundreds of homes from going up in flames.

U.S. officials said Tuesday they’re planning to send at least another 100 firefighters to Australia to join 159 already in the country battling wildfires that have killed 25 people and destroyed 2,000 homes.

With flames climbing as high as a 15-story building and menacing his supposedly fireproof home on three sides, Justin Kam ran to the laundry room and opened the door. Inside was fire.

A weeklong state of emergency has been called in the Australian state of New South Wales as deadly wildfires continue to ravage communities, forcing thousands from their homes, NBC News reports.

Three homes in the Berkshires were damaged in fires that state officials believe are connected and suspicious. The Massachusetts Department of Fire Services said Sunday night that the three houses were found burning on West Road in Mount Washington earlier in the day. Two of the houses are owned by the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Both were destroyed. The…

The American Red Cross says it’s helping families in Rhode Island and in Connecticut who were displaced from their homes after recent fires.

A woman in Burlington, Vt. has been arrested for threatening two teenage boys on a public beach, authorities said. Around 9:30 p.m. Friday evening, Burlington Police say they received a call from the teenagers, 16 and 17 years old. They said a woman who earlier asked them to leave the beach had pointed a shotgun or rifle at them as...

Police are investigating five suspicious fires that burned in Taunton, Massachusetts.

The Lupo family’s house burned down during the Woolsey fire in Malibu, Calif. This is the story of what they lost and how they’re moving forward.

Fire officials say a 22-year-old Cape Cod man has been transported to a Boston hospital with third-degree burns after throwing gasoline onto a backyard fire.

With 15 different wildfires currently raging across California, charring more than 100,000 acres, we take a look at some of the state’s biggest wildfires since the 1900’s.