Former LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley filed a tort claim, saying Mayor Karen Bass had defamed the veteran firefighter in order to clear her own name.

Four wildfires burning in western Colorado have consumed more than 250 square miles, threatened hundreds of homes and forced evacuations, fire officials said.

Spain's weather agency warned the public on Monday to be "cautious" of the "very high or extreme fire danger."

The fires have ravaged small, sparsely populated towns in the country's northwest, forcing locals in many cases to act as firefighters. About 2,382 square miles have burned across Spain and Portugal.

The Bivens Creek and Cloudrest fires have burned 2,088 acres in Madison County and remain uncontained as of Monday.

New maps show updated acreage estimates for two wildfires burning near Sheridan.A new map generated Monday night shows the Cloudrest Fire is now 1,190 acres.T

By Nacho Doce and Guillermo Martinez GONDULFES, Spain (Reuters) -Wildfires raging in northern and western Spain have burned through nearly the same area in the past 24 hours as in all of last year, although the end of a 16-day heatwave and expected rainfall have fanned hopes that an end may be in sight.

Four fires that sparked on Sunday are burning along the Highway 200 corridor near Flathead River west of Dixon.

Hotel bookings in Paphos have slowed sharply as recent wildfires have unsettled travellers, according to Evripides Loizides, president of the Paphos hoteliers association. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA),

Spain's worst wave of wildfires on record spread to the southern slopes of the Picos de Europa mountains and prompted authorities to close part of the popular Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route.

The study comes as Trump has issued an executive order calling for more logging on federal land to boost timber production and mitigate fire risk. The study instead suggests prescribed burns are the best tactic – a practice that has been historically used by indigenous people before land agencies stopped them in the 1900s.