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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the first to call for extensive improvements to facilitate shipping across Humboldt Bay Bar was William Ayres, editor of the Democratic Standard. He began his campaign through editorials in ...

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 ...

PREVIOUSLY: False Reports of ICE Raids in Eureka Spread Across Social Media; Human Rights Commission to Discuss Sanctuary Ordinance Thursday At a public meeting last night, Humboldt County law ...

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 ...