A large wildfire that occurred in Los Angeles (LA), United States, has been reported as causing the greatest damage in urban areas of California in the past 40 years. Approximately 10.4㎢ of ...
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha Fire Department crews fought a fire for over two hours at an auto body shop. Shortly before midnight Wednesday, OFD was dispatched to Bumper and Auto of Omaha in the ...
SUFFOLK, Va. — There were multiple reports of an explosion before a house in Suffolk caught fire Wednesday afternoon, according to a release. Suffolk Fire & Rescue were notified of the explosion ...
ALTADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Lydia Sawyer fought back tears as she saw her home burnt to the ground for the first time Tuesday after the Eaton Fire. Sawyer, her husband Tom, and her 87-year-old ...
The Times also reported that before the fires, LAFD leaders decided not to deploy additional engines to fire-prone areas like the Pacific Palisades. However, nine engines were positioned in ...
Until confronted by The Times with the internal records, the officials did not acknowledge that they had declined to staff and preposition more of the available engines before the fire began.
The plaintiffs said they all lost their homes or businesses to the inferno. The Palisades Fire, the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history, was the first in a series of rapidly growing ...
But several former chiefs with deep experience in LAFD tactics said most of the more than 40 available engines could have been pre-deployed to fire zones before the Palisades blaze started ...
I WOULDN’T BE HERE HAD THEY NOT WOKE ME UP. SHE SAYS THEY ALERTED HER TO THE FIRE IN THE FRONT OF HER TRAILER AROUND 5:00 TUESDAY MORNING. BRANDY MADE IT OUT, BUT GUNNAR, MILO, AND CURLY DID NOT.
IT’S BEEN CALLED THE AUTO FIRE. IT STARTED SUNDAY NIGHT, SPREAD TO 56 ACRES BEFORE FIREFIGHTERS WERE ABLE TO STOP ITS FORWARD PROGRESS. THE CAUSE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. ANIMAL RESCUES ACROSS ...
Less than three months before the Eaton fire, state utility safety regulators questioned whether Southern California Edison’s repairs to its aging transmission lines were holding up. The utility ...