Snow preps led to afternoon brush fire in Sussex County, neighbors say

Preparations for an emergency turned into an actual emergency on Thursday afternoon in Disputanta in Sussex County.
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Waste firm partners with East Sussex Fire Service to tackle rise in bin fires

A waste and recycling firm operating across East Sussex has partnered with East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service to address a growing number of fires caused by the incorrect disposal of household waste.
USA Today

LA fires one-year anniversary events, from celebrity concert to rally

It's been nearly a year since the Palisades and Eaton fires in L.A. County, when news reports trickled in of gridlocked traffic for Palisades Fire evacuees to community members desperate to know the ...
New York Post

We fought our insurers after the California fires by uniting — and won

In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, we lost the naive belief that insurance would work the way we were promised. AFP via Getty Images We Californians lost our homes in the Eaton and ...
The New York Times

Three Reported Missing in Australia as Fires Rage in ‘Catastrophic’ Conditions

The country is in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave, with temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Multiple bush fires were burning in the state of Victoria. By Nazaneen Ghaffar and ...
The Conversation

LA fires 1 year later: Chemicals from smoke lingered inside homes long after the wildfires were out – studies tracked the harm

Yifang Zhu is working with CAP.LA (Community Action Project Los Angeles), which is funded by the R&S Kayne Foundation, and the LA Fire Health Study, which is funded by private philanthropists, ...
New York Post

Here’s the real cost of the 2025 LA wildfires — showing billions of dollars in losses

The value of homes destroyed in the Palisades and Eaton Fires that blazed through Southern California in January 2025 has reached a jaw-dropping tally. The devastating fires collectively wiped out an ...
The Conversation

My home is in a district facing extreme or catastrophic fire danger. What should I do?

Sarah McColl-Gausden has received funding from the Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action including through the Integrated Forest Ecosystem Research program. She is a member of ...
Los Angeles Times

The first book about the L.A. fires is really about ‘America’s new age of disaster’

If journalism is the first draft of history, TV news is a rough, improbable sketch. As last year’s wildfires multiplied, still 0% contained, field reporters — tasked with articulating the ...
The New York Times

Which City Burns Next?

Mr. Wallace-Wells is an Opinion writer. Mr. Mangan visited the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods of Los Angeles the last week of December. One year ago this week, the Santa Ana winds roared ...
CNN

A year after L.A. fires, survivors face a perfect storm of insurance shortfalls and rising homebuilding costs

See what’s changed in Altadena since it was ravaged by wildfires. Upgrade to watch the full report. One year after a firestorm ripped through Sue Decker’s neighborhood in the foothills of Altadena, ...