On Friday, Jan. 24, the New Orleans Fire Department was called to the 1800 block of Diane Street after neighbors reported seeing smoke coming through the roof. Boil water advisory lifted for Lafourche ...

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.

ALGIERS, La. (WGNO) — A woman is dead following a fatal fire in Algiers early Friday morning, Jan, 24, according to the New Orleans Fire Department. According to NOFD firefighters, at 1:55 a.m ...

LOS ANGELES — Evacuation warnings were lifted and forward progress of a fire in the Sepulveda Basin was stopped Thursday, but not before the fire burned 45 acres in Brentwood. Firefighters made ...

More than 30,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes north of Los Angeles after a new wildfire broke out in California. The latest blaze - dubbed the Hughes Fire - started late on ...

LOS ANGELES — Evacuations were ordered on Wednesday for remote communities near a huge and fast-moving wildfire in mountains north of Los Angeles, as parched Southern California endured another ...

Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76 Musa Serdar Terzioglu/Anadolu via Getty Twenty children were among the 76 fatal victims of ...

Village of Ovid, N.Y. ― Firefighters battling a “historic” fire that destroyed a block in the village of Ovid were battling such cold conditions that their shirts and gloves froze to them ...

Main Street in Ovid is closed Wednesday following a massive fire that destroyed several business within the Seneca County village. According to the Ovid Fire Department, businesses from the Ovid ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday near Castaic Lake, growing to more than 10,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations. Around ...

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