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Multiple wildfires broke out on Long Island on Saturday amid high-risk fire conditions of low humidity and gusty winds, forcing the closure of sections of a highway in Suffolk County and drawing the response of dozens of agencies. At a news conference on Saturday evening, Ed Romaine, the Suffolk County executive, said that one firefighter…
Brush fires fueled by gusty winds and dry conditions that broke in North and South Carolina persisted on Sunday, prompting the authorities to order evacuations in several communities. A brush fire along the South Carolina coast was threatening Carolina Forest, just west of Myrtle Beach. Dramatic video from Sunday morning showed firefighters battling flames as…
Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after killing at least one person, damaging dozens of homes and prompting evacuation orders for thousands of residents, fire officials said. The roughly 1,800-hectare (4,500-acre) fire has been burning for days in Ofunato, a…
But the government’s weather service said that gusts of up to 38 miles an hour were coming from the west as it was landing. There was also drifting snow in the Toronto area, which was struck by two snowstorms in the past few days. The jet’s pilots had told passengers during the flight that there…
At least six people were killed and 25 others injured on Friday in a fire at a construction site for a luxury hotel in Busan, a port city in southeastern South Korea, fire officials said. Fire officials received the first report around 10:50 a.m. local time of a fire, which apparently broke out in the…
Burned shells of abandoned cars and metal debris sat scattered along the charred streets. Soot stained homes that had been engulfed in flames. A crater in a sidewalk outside a Macy’s department store smoldered. Residents in Northeast Philadelphia on Saturday stood in disbelief at the devastation they witnessed in their neighborhood after a small medical…
The story of Notre-Dame’s restoration starts with a fire, as Claire Tabouret is well aware. Officials in France have chosen her, a Frenchwoman who, for the last 10 years, has called Los Angeles home, to help bring its $900 million, yearslong resurrection project to the finish line. She will create stained glass windows in several…
A passenger jet carrying 64 people crashed into the Potomac River near Washington on Wednesday night after colliding midair with a military helicopter while approaching Reagan National Airport, officials said. The plane was being operated as American Eagle Flight 5342 by PSA Airlines for its parent carrier, American Airlines, and had taken off from Wichita,…
President Trump has repeatedly blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders for the fires that devastated Los Angeles. The president has charged that the state’s Democrats have stubbornly refused to send enough water to Southern California to fight fires, which he attributed to their desire to protect the delta smelt, a threatened species of…
The first indication that tragedy had stricken their loved ones came around 5:30 a.m. in urgent messages to the family’s WhatsApp group. A brother and sister, trapped inside a ski lodge in Turkey that had caught fire, were pleading for help. “Save us,” they wrote, their uncle, Ozgur Turkmen, said in a phone interview. “We…
