Sentence examples for wildfire destruction from inspiring English sources

Colorado's High Park Fire, ignited June 9 by a lightning strike to a tree in Roosevelt National Forest, has expanded to 56,000 acres and destroyed at least 181 structures, a new state record for wildfire destruction, by June 18.

Earlier in the show, Scarborough criticized Trump's behavior over the weekend, which included the president playing down the Republican House loss in the midterms, saying the California wildfires could have been prevented by raking the forest floors, vowing to deliver "great climate" as he toured the wildfire destruction, and criticizing the military for taking too long to get Osama bin Laden.

Last year 44 people were killed in California wildfires, which brought destruction estimated at $10 billion.

The most noticeable adverse effect of wildfires is the destruction of property and biomass.

Other migration hazards include pollution, storms, wildfires, and habitat destruction along migration routes, denying migrants food at stopover points.

Related: In Photos: Deadly Wildfire Leaves Trail of Death and Destruction in Northern California.

Officials said that approximately 346 homes were destroyed by the Waldo Canyon fire making it the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history -- and newly released aerial photos reveal the extent of the horrible destruction in the region.

According to a recent state study, only about 261,000 acres of California forest get treated annually, and even doubling that figure would do little more than maintain current "historic rates of burning". To actually reduce destruction by wildfires, we'd have to ratchet up fuel reduction considerably.

-- The unprecedented death and destruction that wildfires have brought to California the last two years have demonstrated the sharp limitations firefighting aircraft have when battling extreme fire behavior.

California has experienced unprecedented destruction from wildfires over the last two years, which has highlighted major flaws in the emergency alert systems, including a failure to use the latest technology to broadcast Amber Alert-style warnings on cellphones ahead of deadly disasters.

At a time when unprecedented storms and wildfires are wreaking record destruction, figuring out the cost of how much damage carbon dioxide emissions cause is a game of "The Price Is Right".