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When it comes to their views on climate change, Americans are looking at natural disasters and their local weather, according to a new poll.

The dead were found in burned-out cars, in the smoldering ruins of their homes, or next to their vehicles, apparently overcome by smoke and flames before they could jump in behind the wheel and escape. In some cases, there were only charred fragments of bone, so small that coroner's investigators used a wire basket to sift and sort them.

Small wildfires have broken out across New York in the past week, and state officials are warning residents to beware of dry conditions as temperatures rise.

New York State's annual ban on open burning runs from March 16-May 14 and is instrumental in curbing wildfires.

In terms of acreage consumed, the fire that started on Dec. 4 now exceeds the devastating Rim Fire in 2013 by 2,000 acres, officials said Saturday.

A surge from the biggest of the wildfires burning in Southern California has forced several thousand more people to evacuate in a community of artists and resorts.

Thinning of forests in Central Oregon, where towns and subdivisions sit in a green ocean of Ponderosa and lodgepole pines, has saved homes amid one of the most devastating wildfire seasons in the American West.

After fast-moving wildfires left at least 23 bodies in their wake, California fire officials say they will assess the effectiveness of emergency alert systems.

New York officials are asking residents to help prevent wildfires now that spring is here.

STONY POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Fire officials in Rockland County are investigating a series of brush fires along the CSX train line.