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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Max Fawcett |Christopher Weber |Marcio Sanchez |Jim Stanford
CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — Nearly 20,000 people were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles, as parched Southern California endured another round of dangerous winds and two major previous blazes continued to smolder.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Max Fawcett |Christopher Weber |Holly Ramer |David Merner
After a weekend spent blocking the explosive growth of fires that destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people in the Los Angeles area, firefighters got a slight break with calmer weather but cast a wary eye on a forecast for yet more wind. Should that happen, already burned homes and valleys could flare anew, sending embers to unburned territory miles downwind. New fires could add to the complication.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Christopher Weber |Julie Watson |John Seewer |David Moscrop
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters began to slow the spread of deadly and devastating fires in the Los Angeles area Thursday after the ferocious winds that drove the fast-moving flames diminished, but the largest blazes still burned out of control. Crews were able to knock down a major threat that broke out Wednesday evening in the Hollywood Hills, close to the heart of the entertainment industry, and by morning had lifted an evacuation order for the area.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Max Fawcett |Jaimie Ding |Christopher Weber |Julie Watson
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force Wednesday after setting off a desperate escape from burning homes through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke. The flames from a fire that broke out Tuesday evening near a nature preserve in the inland foothills northeast of LA spread so rapidly that staff at a senior living center had to push dozens of residents in wheelchairs and hospital beds down the street to a parking lot.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
nationalobserver.com | Claire Rush |Jennifer Sinco Kelleher |Christopher Weber
Survivors of deadly wildfires on Maui contended with intermittent power and unreliable cell service as they sought help rebuilding their lives. Experts, meanwhile, labored to find the dead and identify them. With the death toll already at 106, a mobile morgue unit with additional coroners arrived in Hawaii on Tuesday to help with the grim task of sorting through remains. The governor warned that a new storm could complicate the search and recovery.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
nationalobserver.com | Claire Rush |Jennifer Sinco Kelleher |Christopher Weber
The number of deaths caused by the Maui wildfires stood at 99 Monday, a figure that is likely to increase as search crews comb neighborhoods where flames moved as fast as a mile a minute. The blazes that consumed most of the historic town of Lahaina are already the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century. The cause was under investigation. Gov. Josh Green said the search will take time and and asked for space to do it properly.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
firerescue1.com | Claire Rush |Audrey McAvoy |Christopher Weber
By Claire Rush, Audrey McAvoy and Christopher Weber
Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii — As Hawaii residents mourned those killed in ferocious wildfires, officials warned that the full human and environmental toll was not yet known and the recovery only just beginning from the destruction wrought by flames that galloped a mile every minute. Twenty dogs and dozens of people will make their way through neighborhoods reduced to ash, searching burnt out cars and homes for the dead.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
nationalobserver.com | Claire Rush |Audrey McAvoy |Christopher Weber
As Hawaii residents mourned those killed in ferocious wildfires, officials warned that the full human and environmental toll was not yet known and the recovery only just beginning. Twenty dogs and dozens of people will make their way through neighborhoods reduced to ash, searching burnt out cars and homes for the dead. With the toll at 96, this is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
gov1.com | Claire Rush |Audrey McAvoy |Christopher Weber
By Claire Rush, Audrey McAvoy and Christopher Weber
Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii — As Hawaii residents mourned those killed in ferocious wildfires, officials warned that the full human and environmental toll was not yet known and the recovery only just beginning from the destruction wrought by flames that galloped a mile every minute. Twenty dogs and dozens of people will make their way through neighborhoods reduced to ash, searching burnt out cars and homes for the dead.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
ems1.com | Claire Rush |Audrey McAvoy |Christopher Weber
By Claire Rush, Audrey McAvoy and Christopher Weber
Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii — As Hawaii residents mourned those killed in ferocious wildfires, officials warned that the full human and environmental toll was not yet known and the recovery only just beginning from the destruction wrought by flames that galloped a mile every minute. Twenty dogs and dozens of people will make their way through neighborhoods reduced to ash, searching burnt out cars and homes for the dead.
