Twin Cities, southern Minnesota under red flag warnings Thursday 01:16. On the heels of a frosty winter season that brought record-low temperatures to parts of the Northeast, the sudden onset of ...

Red flag warnings mean an increased risk of wildfires in the next 12 to 24 hours, so fire safety is extra important. How do they differ from fire weather watches? And what precautions should you take?

A Red Flag Warning is an alert issued when conditions can prompt any brush fires that start to spread rapidly and become difficult to extinguish. Winds will gust between 15 and… ...