What is happening in LA and has happened in every major conflagration in the U.S. in the last 200 years is really a wildland fire that transitions into an urban conflagration. When a wildland ...

If it had reached the UCSD campus with all its groves of very flammable eucalyptus trees, there would have been a conflagration. There was talk a couple of years ago about UCSD cutting down the ...

Most pretentious teenagers in the 20th century, before smart-phones became ubiquitous, had a favorite doomy book they liked to be seen “reading” — though precious little of that got done, the tome in ...

Rising winds threaten to spread the conflagration to suburban neighborhoods. Residents nearby were ordered to evacuate or warned to be ready to leave quickly ahead of the fire. The blaze prompted ...

Moore-Merrell says that this marks the third instance of an urban conflagration under the Biden Administration. The other two were the 2021 Marshall Fire in Colorado, which burnt more than 6,000 ...

If you’ve ever wondered why trees will often be standing even after a wildfire has destroyed nearby homes, fire officials are offering an explanation. “The answer lies in the difference ...

The conflagration that became known as the Bel Air Fire broke out on the morning of November 6, 1961, in a patch of brush north of Mulholland Drive. Fanned by Santa Ana winds, the flames jumped ...

A lithium-ion battery fire broke out at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility on Thursday, burning through the night and flaring up again Friday. A local state of emergency was declared on ...

Amid fears of a regional conflagration, the 16 member countries of the southern African regional organisation had called on Friday for "a joint summit" with the eight countries of the East African ...

At the same time, the region’s municipal firefighting forces and water systems weren’t designed for this sort of fire – a conflagration engulfing entire neighborhoods quickly overwhelms the ...

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