Recovery

The only larger wildfire season in Colorado in terms of acres burned was in 2002, when 926,502 acres were destroyed.

Many homes still need to be rebuilt after Hurricane Harvey, but how many?

A meteorologist said it’s the most unhealthy days in Oregon since air quality records have been kept, starting in 2000.

As some 14,000 firefighters wrap up their second week battling more than a dozen destructive wildfires across the state, fatigue is setting but the fires show few signs of letting up.

As set forward initially, the state’s action plan for flood recovery estimated that some 1,000 housing units would be needed statewide.

The National Weather Service confirmed yesterday afternoon that a tornado hit the town of nearly 17,000 people packing 110 mph winds.

The state already has disbursed more than $739 million in disaster-relief money but is only now beginning to tap into what will become more than $400 million in block grant funding.

Cities all over the state of Florida are saying this round of reimbursements — those related to Irma — are coming in even more slowly than usual.

The NFIP is still $20.5 billion in debt in spite of debt forgiveness after devastating 2017.

Tens of thousands of families are estimated to have fled to Florida after Hurricane Maria, many of them relocating to Central Florida.

Among the issues on the table: Whether the lawyer representing the survivors, Solomon Radner, can sue police officers as John Doe 1-30 without naming the specific officers who came to the club in the early hours of June 12, 2016.

Firefighters this month have been laboring under triple-digit temperatures and dry conditions to gain control over fires that have burned indiscriminately through residential neighborhoods, rolling hills and steep, forested terrain.

'We’ve had 17 fires before, but these are impacting communities — and they’re large fires, not small.'

The Ferguson Fire is one of nearly a dozen active wildfires in the state right now, and for the second time this summer Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency.

'The fire is moving so fast that law enforcement is doing evacuations as fast as we can.'