Only 21 electric vehicles are known to have caught fire during Hurricane Ian, which damaged 358,000 vehicles in Florida and the Carolinas.

Home surveillance video shows the moment a Tesla vehicle became engulfed in flames inside a flooded garage in Florida during Hurricane Helene. The family, who made it out of the home safely, told a local news station that it took only a few minutes for the home to be destroyed by the fire.

Electric vehicles can catch fire if they are inundated by saltwater, so owners who live in the path of a major storm like Hurricane Helene should take precautions and prepare for the possibility that they’ll be unable to charge their cars during a power outage.

Authorities on Monday night ended a shelter-in-place order for more than 90,000 people east of Atlanta following a weekend chemical plant fire that sent a massive plume of dark smoke into the Georgia sky and led to complaints about a strong chemical smell and haze.

A shelter-in-place order remained in effect Monday in parts of greater Atlanta after a chemical fire at a pool cleaning facility shot plumes of black smoke into the air, forced evacuations and closed roads, including a main traffic vein into the city.

More than 90,000 residents in a county east of Atlanta have been told to keep sheltering in place a day after a chemical plant fire sent a massive plume of dark smoke high into the sky that could been

California has surpassed the dubious milestone of 1 million acres burned. In 2023, fires burned 332,822 acres throughout the state.

California residents near a wildfire that is largely contained have been ordered to evacuate after the blaze in San Bernardino County flared up

Cal Fire ordered residents in Seven Oaks and the Barton Flats area, including all campgrounds and cabins, to evacuate as the Line fire threatened.