It said that research showed that evacuation chairs controlled by trained handlers can even “outperform typical stair descent walking speeds”. Another response to the consultation accepted that formal ...

Karen Bagnard's home of more than 50 years in Altadena, California, burned down in January's Los Angeles-area wildfires. The fires have displaced older residents at a vulnerable time in their lives.

On Monday afternoon, the city lifted all remaining evacuation orders and dropped the escort requirement. The sun was out after the first significant storm of the season brought rain that helped ...

Evacuation orders and warnings were issued to more than 31,000 people in the vicinity of two new wildfires north of Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los ...

Hughes Fire: The new blaze burning near Lake Castaic has so far burned down 9,400 acres of land, as per CAL Fire data. Days after rapidly moving wildfires left behind a trail of massive ...

“None of us got a red (mandatory evacuation) alert before we felt ready to leave our houses,” he told CNN Wednesday. “You know, we felt heat and fire and that trumps any alert. So a lot of ...

PAMELA. WELL, THOSE EVACUATION ORDERS WERE LIFTED BEFORE NOON. WE WERE CHATTING WITH NEIGHBORS, THE BUSINESS OWNERS WHO LIVE NEARBY. THEY SAY THEY COULD SMELL THE CHLORINE IN THE AIR. THIS ...

Update: As of late Thursday morning, local authorities had lifted the remaining Ventura County evacuation warnings related to the Hughes Fire. Ventura County authorities downgraded an evacuation ...

More than 31,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, and another 23,000 are under evacuation warnings, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said. Parts of Interstate 5 that had been closed ...

A mandatory evacuation order issued for the area around the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO) in Dartmouth, N.S., was lifted just after 6 p.m. AT on Wednesday. A news release on ...

A fast-growing brush fire forced evacuation orders in the Los Angeles County community of Castaic on Wednesday, officials said. The blaze, which officials named the Hughes Fire, was first reported ...