Fire in vacant Colorado gas station doubling as shelter for unhoused highlights concerns of neighbors
A fire tore through a vacant building that was once used as a gas station. The building at the corner of Alameda Avenue and ...
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Auto Fire Joins List of California Blazes
The fire’s name comes from its origin, near Auto Center Drive in the city of Ventura, about 60 miles from downtown Los Angeles. It is significantly smaller than the major fires that have been ...
Los Angeles Times27d
Crews battle Sunset fire in Hollywood Hills, knock down Studio City house fire
Jan. 10, 2025 Then shortly before 9 p.m., the LAFD responded to a call for a structure fire at a four-story home at 3656 N. Sunswept Drive in Studio City. Aerial footage captured by KTLA-TV showed ...
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75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
At least 75 fire trucks languished in a city repair facility in downtown Los Angeles as wildfires decimated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, pictures taken by The Post show. The essential ...
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Under Fire In Pokrovsk: Ukrainian City Burns As Attack Drones Stalk Residents
Under increasing Russian fire, the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk is on the front line of Russia's invasion. The key supply hub came under heavy shelling on January 20, as residents fled burning apartment ...
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'Fire Tornado' Forms in L.A. amid Fires Ravaging the City — Watch the Harrowing Footage
The swirling winds were spotted emanating from the flames of the Palisades Fire just north of Santa Monica Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor ...
The New Yorker27d
A City on Fire Can’t Be Photographed
The most widely circulated of the photographs record dramatic moments: buildings on fire, landscapes on fire, the shadow theatre of burning palms, the smoke-choked vistas in which, here and there ...
Los Angeles Times28d
Fire hydrants ran dry as Pacific Palisades burned. L.A. city officials blame ‘tremendous demand’
Caruso, a former DWP commissioner, blasted the city for infrastructure that struggled to meet firefighting demands. “There’s no water in the fire hydrants,” Caruso said with exasperation.
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In an Anxious L.A., a House Fire Puts a Neighborhood on Edge
Aghast at their city burning, residents of Studio City endured harrowing moments of uncertainty when a house caught fire in the neighborhood. By Isabella Kwai Even in parts of Los Angeles that had ...
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‘Beyond the brink’: Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America
Less than a month before fires swept across Los Angeles, a group of longtime firefighters gathered at City Hall to plead for more resources. They were at a “breaking point,” one said.
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LA's fire chief engages in a public spat with City Hall as wildfires rage
She also cast blame on the city for water running out Tuesday when about 20% of the hydrants tapped to fight the Palisades fire went dry. Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to ...
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LA fire chief says city failed residents in wildfire prep, budget cuts: 'Screaming to be properly funded'
Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley said that the City of Los Angeles failed its over 100,000 displaced residents who were forced to evacuate from the ongoing wildfire siege.