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The Tubbs Fire was a wildfire in Northern California during October 2017. At the time, the Tubbs Fire was the most destructive wildfire in California history, [7] [1] burning parts of Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties, inflicting its greatest losses in the city of Santa Rosa. Its destructiveness was surpassed only a year later by the Camp Fire of ...
As of 6 p.m. PT, the Hughes Fire has spread at least 9,269 acres. across LA and Ventura counties. Students at Castaic schools have been evacuated to nearby locations awaiting parents to pick them up.
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service covering Cornwall, England. As of April 2019 [update] , the service employs over 400 retained firefighters , 203 full-time firefighters , plus 170 support and administrative staff. [ 1 ]
A DC-10 dumps fire retardant near Mandeville Canyon Road during a battle on Jan. 11, 2025, to save the homes in this community in Brentwood from the Palisades Fire that started on Jan. 7, 2025.
The fire began following a leak in the propane deasphalting unit and spread quickly, in part because of the rapid collapse of a major pipe rack carrying flammable hydrocarbons. Some of the rack's support columns had not been fireproofed. [163] April 27, 2008 - A fire broke out at a tank battery in Ward County. [164]
FEMA's index calculates wildfire risk based on a community's expected annual fire losses, assigning ratings from very low to very high. A "very high" risk area means it has significantly higher ...
The Palisades Fire burns a residence in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Jan. 7, 2025. Credit - Ethan Swope—AP. M ore than 100,000 residents have been forced to evacuate Los ...
A fire in a dormitory at a soccer youth team training centre in Flamengo, Brazil, killed 10 teenage players. [297] February 12 – 2019 Delhi hotel fire. A fire that broke out at a hotel in Delhi, India, killed 17. [298] Notre-Dame de Paris fire. April 15 – Notre-Dame fire. Roof and spire were destroyed, and heavy damage was done to the ...