LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California fire officials on Sunday reported significant headway battling the two largest of dozens of lightning-sparked blazes raging in and around the greater San Francisco Bay area since mid-August, though 60,000 people remained unde... More »
(Reuters) – When a fast-moving wildfire licked up to the fringes of the sprawling Getty Center complex on Tuesday, the staff of the Los Angeles museum betrayed no sign of panic, confident that its priceless art was safe and secure within its walls. Mindful of ... More »
(Reuters) – A major wildfire burning in Los Angeles near the famed Getty Center art museum was likely sparked by a tree branch falling on power lines in high winds, fire officials said on Tuesday. The Los Angeles Fire Department said the preliminary determinat... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Firefighters have tightened their grip on a deadly Los Angeles wildfire burning with subdued fury on Sunday after extremely dry desert winds that had stoked the flames gave way to moister, gentler breezes blowing in from the Pacific. Th... More »
Wildfires threaten a suburb of Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island taken after sunset, February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Hannah Photography More than 1,400 residents of New Zealand’s Christchurch city returned home on Friday as firefighters contained a ma... More »
