On a cul-de-sac in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades, what was once a four-bedroom wood-and-stucco house is now a pile of rubble ...

Gun owners in Greater Manchester have been handing over soon-to-be-illegal blank-firing pistols in a firearms amnesty.

A deep analysis of the Palisades fire evacuation paints a chaotic scenario: As the fire roared toward homes, major escape routes were gridlocked before the first evacuation orders were given.

Neighbour Liam Crean said he heard an explosion before the fire and came outside to see the man dangling from the third-floor balcony. “I was just inside and heard a commotion and thought I ...

The World Bank and Asian Development Bank are poised to begin relying on each other’s due diligence and for some co-financed projects, with NGOs claiming the move will lead to lower standards ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

The fire was being fanned by strong, dry Santa Ana winds that were racing through the area, pushing a vast pall of smoke and dangerous embers ahead of the flames -- sparking fears that it could ...

The Hughes Fire has burned more than 9,000 acres Wednesday around the Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County on Wednesday continuing a devastating wave of Southern California wildfires fueled by dry ...

Sickening reports emerged of some of the 238 registered guests jumping from windows to escape the flames ... The interior minister said the fire started at 03:27am (12:27am GMT) and firefighters ...

LATEST Jan. 23, 8:45 a.m. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County continued to burn Thursday morning, but locals and first responders had some reason for optimism despite ...

The fire appears to have started in the restaurant of the hotel, with people struggling to escape because of its cliff-side location Two of the victims died after jumping from the building in a ...

A survivor who managed to escape the flames told local media that no alarms rang at the hotel when the fire started, complaining of a lack of any safety measures such as fire stairs or smoke ...