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An evacuation order was issued for residents along Highway 6, north of Bishop, as the Silver Fire exceeded 1,000 acres. The map above shows the evacuation area in red. For latest updates ...
MANILA, Philippines — A fire broke out at the five-story Ospital ng Maynila in Malate before dawn yesterday. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the blaze started at around 1:30 a ...
A small “isolated” fire in Vacaville High School’s main gymnasium set off fire alarms Friday morning, prompting school staff members to make sure students were safe as firefighters made ...
Thursday's tragic submarine sinking in the Red Sea has so far left six people ... tourists die after an Egyptian diving boat caught fire. Scuba Travel, who chartered the boat, announced that ...
CalFire released the last of its updated fire hazard severity maps on Monday, showing a 3.5 million acre expansion of Southern California’s zones. The largest increases were in the Antelope Valley and ...
The fire reportedly started in the dining area before 5:30 a.m. At least one person was killed and four others were injured in a fire at a shuttered ski resort hotel in northwestern Turkey on ...
A 10-acre brush fire in Collier Collier threatened homes and closed a park. Twelve counties are under drought or increased fire danger conditions. The number of wildfires increased Wednesday ...
Also see: Southern California fire danger zones increase 76% in new maps All told, the size of these orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size ...
Roughly every decade, CalFire releases a new map that outlines exactly which areas of California are within fire hazard zones: pieces of property that, due to a mix of fuel, terrain and weather ...
"If it's dark rattlesnakes, tripping hazards, getting equipment up there; all things you have to consider," Arvada Fire Lt. Dariusz Piwko said. A map on the table shows a wildfire spreading across ...
The easy ironies abound when it comes to the new high-danger areas drawn onto the fire hazard maps of Southern California released by CalFire this week. Most of them revolve around a gallows-humor ...
In Texas, fire crews can find themselves battling scores of blazes throughout the year -- from winter, when dormant vegetation provides fire fuel, to summer, when drought can turn grass and trees ...