Weather and Critical Events

The past week in images features train cars used to fight fires, a wreck caused by a dust storm, a trucker who flipped in floodwaters and more.

Truckers will have to deal with another Northwest heat wave as triple digits return the next few days (forecast video included).

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High demand for jet fuel out West from firefighting crews and airlines is affecting commercial flights and cargo (forecast video included).

Truckers will face triple-digit temperatures and heat index readings this week from the northern Plains to the Deep South (forecast video included).

Truckers will run into areas of low visibility, poor air quality and potential road closures due to dozens of Western wildfires (forecast video included).

The past week in images features huge Western wildfires, devastating floods in Colorado, a successful emergency airplane landing and more.

Truckers will keep hitting areas of low visibility, poor air quality and potential road closures due to dozens of Western wildfires (forecast video included).

“She was in shock, in disbelief,” truck driver Trinidad Arebalo said about a woman he helped save from her burning car.

Oregon’s Bootleg wildfire, the largest in the country, is almost as big as Oklahoma City, the eighth-largest U.S. city by area (forecast video included).

Detecting severe storms often requires sophisticated equipment, but truckers can use their senses to make a close prediction while on the road.

Truckers will hit monsoonal storms and potentially flooded roads in the Desert Southwest through the weekend (forecast video included).

Drought, gusty winds and dry thunderstorms will keep the risk of new wildfire development elevated in many Western states (forecast video included).

Smoke from Oregon’s Bootleg fire, and dozens of others in the West, could limit truckers’ visibility and produce poor air quality (forecast video included).

Officials are hoping to reopen a section of Interstate 16 in Georgia on Friday after a truck damaged an overpass.

A slow-moving system could flood some places this weekend from the Mississippi Valley to the East Coast (forecast video included).

A 7-mile stretch of I-16 in Georgia has been shut down after a hopper dislodged an overpass Thursday.

Officials say the Bootleg fire, the largest wildfire in the U.S. at more than 200,000 acres, may not be fully contained until the fall (forecast video included).

Truckers don’t have to get burned by summer heat waves if they and their carriers keep their cool and prepare.

Monsoonal storms will produce areas of torrential rain and potential flash flooding Wednesday in the Desert Southwest (forecast video included).