LA PORTE, Texas (AP) — A massive pipeline fire sent a column of fire looming over some Houston suburbs Monday as emergency workers evacuated surrounding neighborhoods and tried to prevent more nearby homes from catching fire. The fire in a 20-inch liquefied natural gas pipeline must burn out on its own, according to Dallas-based operator […]
WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) – Three large forest fires in Southern California expanded dramatically – houses, cars and horse stables burned in the mountain communities, at least a dozen people were injured, officials said on Wednesday. In the close-knit community of Wrightwood, trees burned behind homes as authorities pleaded with residents to evacuate the surging Bridge […]
Watch: Airport fire engulfs weather station and destroys webcam Time-lapse footage shows a fast-spreading airport fire destroying a weather station in California. Cal Fire said 22,376 acres of land were burned. As the Airport Fire, one of three major wildfires currently raging in Southern California, rages for the third day in a row, time-lapse footage […]
A suspected California arsonist was arrested days after he allegedly started the San Bernardino Line Fire that has devastated thousands of acres of forest east of Los Angeles. Justin Wayne Halstenberg was charged Tuesday after the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department began an investigation into the wildfire that has burned more than 34,000 acres of land […]
TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (AP) — Apocalyptic-looking plumes of smoke filled the skies east of Los Angeles on Tuesday as firefighters battled three large forest fires which broke out amid an extreme heatwave and threatened tens of thousands of homes and other buildings. Evacuation orders were expanded Tuesday evening as the fires grew and affected parts […]
A proposed initiative that would allow limited development in at least nine Florida state parks has sparked an outcry, with residents across the state protesting to protect the sanctity of the state’s natural areas. Under the Great Outdoors Initiative, parks in Panama City Beach, Santa Rosa Beach, Dania Beach, Thonotosassa, Hobe Sound, Dunedin, North Miami […]
The owner of a luxury vacation home in the Hamptons where two Maryland sisters died in a fire caused by sloppy electrical work has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Peter Miller, 56, admitted building an illegal outdoor kitchen that overloaded the electrical grid of his $8,000-a-week Sag Harbor apartment – causing the deaths of 21-year-old […]
Firefighters from nine Door County departments and three from outside the county were called to fight the fire in the 6,800-square-foot home EGG HARBOR – Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of a fire that caused an estimated $900,000 in damage to a waterfront home Saturday afternoon. Nine Door County fire departments, as […]
Officials say Park Fire shows ‘extreme fire behavior’ Firefighters continue to battle the Park Fire in California’s Butte and Tehama counties in late July. (Video published by CALFIRE) The number of structures destroyed by the Park Fire exceeded 700 as damage assessment crews deployed over the weekend to the fourth-largest wildfire in state history finished […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah repelled heavy shelling early Sunday morning but refrained from triggering a widely feared all-out war, signaling that their most intense exchange in months is over. The cross-border attacks came as high-level talks on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas resumed in Egypt. Gaza This would […]
