An uncontained bushfire raging in Australia's Victoria state that has prompted an evacuation order for hundreds of residents will burn for several days, officials said on Sunday.
December 22, 2024Some 3,700 evacuees from the Malibu wildfire returned home on Thursday as firefighters made progress in battling the blaze that has destroyed at least six
December 12, 2024
More than 3,700 residents have returned to their Malibu homes as weather conditions improved enough to help firefighters battling a Southern California blaze
December 12, 2024
Weather conditions have improved enough in Southern California for forecasters to say that the worst of the high winds that drove a wildfire through part of Malibu have passed
December 11, 2024
Aided by favorable winds and weather, firefighters on Wednesday progressed in containing a wildfire in the beach community of Malibu, California, where
December 11, 2024
A wildfire fanned by strong winds was burning on Tuesday just northwest of Los Angeles forced some residents in Malibu to evacuate as it threatened homes,
December 10, 2024
Thousands of Southern California residents are under evacuation orders and warnings as firefighters battle a wind-driven wildfire in Malibu
December 10, 2024
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December 10, 2024
Illinois lawmaker's aide gets sick after opening mail, Aurora office building evacuated
December 10, 2024About 87,000 people are being evacuated in a central Philippine region after a volcano erupted with a huge plume of ash and superhot streams of gas and debris hurtling down its slopes
December 10, 2024
A seismic event sparked a fire and halted operations at the Alardinskaya mine in southwestern Siberia, Russian officials and news agencies said on Monday.
December 09, 2024A Southern California wildfire fueled by desert winds burned 2,200 acres (890 hectares) and prompted evacuation orders for 4,000 people in Riverside County, officials
July 02, 2024
The American Dream Mall in New Jersey has reopened after briefly being evacuated while police investigated a bomb threat, state Governor Phil Murphy said in a post on the X social media
July 02, 2024
Severe floods caused by monsoon rains have killed more than 30 people and displaced tens of thousands in Malaysia and southern Thailand, with both countries preparing shelters and evacuation plans in anticipation of more heavy rain
December 03, 2024
Papua New Guinea ordered thousands of residents to evacuate from the path of a still-active landslide on Tuesday after parts of a mountain collapsed
July 02, 2024
Residents in the Malaysian town of Tumpat were returning to submerged homes and shops as deadly floodwaters began to ease after being inundated by more than
December 03, 2024
A malfunctioning steam room at a YMCA in Rhode Island pumped out so much steam that it triggered an a sprinkler system alarm, prompting an evacuation
June 15, 2024With little warning, thousands of people were forced to flee their homes as a pair of wildfires ballooned in a single afternoon
June 21, 2024
A wildfire in Oregon’s high desert has grown rapidly
June 26, 2024
Wildfire prompts evacuation order for thousands in Northern California as ‘exceptionally dangerous’ heat builds in the West
July 03, 2024
Stung by past failures to prepare for hurricanes, the Mexican government is evacuating even sea turtle eggs from beaches ahead of Hurricane Beryl
July 03, 2024
The West is sizzling under extreme heat and bracing for the threat of more fires as thousands remain evacuated in California
July 04, 2024
Manawa Dam in Wisconsin suffers ‘major damage’ amid heavy flooding, authorities say
July 05, 2024
A fairly controlled fire grew to a 10,000-hectare inferno over the course of a day, causing 9,600 residents of an eastern Canadian community to flee and putting a nearby community
July 13, 2024
Authorities say several areas in Tonto National Forest are under evacuation orders due to a lightning-caused wildfire that has burned 8.6 square miles since last Thursday
July 15, 2024A wildfire in Salt Lake City has forced people living uphill from Utah’s state capitol to evacuate
July 21, 2024Authorities in Utah have lifted evacuation orders for a wildfire in Salt Lake City that threatened neighborhoods near the state Capitol over the weekend
July 22, 2024Multiple wildfires in the Canadian Rockies’ largest national park have sent up to 25,000 visitors and residents fleeing west over the last open mountain road
July 23, 2024
Famed national park evacuated in Canada as fires threaten the area
July 23, 2024
Homes destroyed, evacuation orders issued as pair of large fires rage in Riverside County
July 23, 2024The Franco-Swiss airport of Basel-Mulhouse was evacuated and closed for a short while on Friday due to a bomb alert, hours before the start of the Olympics
July 26, 2024Heavy rain caused a dam to burst in central Russia's Chelyabinsk region on Friday, prompting officials to evacuate several nearby villages, local authorities said.
July 26, 2024Significant sinkhole opens in neighborhood, no injuries reported
July 28, 2024
Fire crews battling California’s largest wildfire this year have corralled a third of the blaze, helped in part by cooler weather
August 04, 2024
A wind-driven wildfire on a hillside above the southern California city of San Bernardino burned several homes and forced evacuations before it was brought under control on
August 06, 2024
Residents forced to evacuate the wildfire-hit western Canadian tourist town of Jasper three weeks ago will be allowed to return home on Friday, local officials said on Monday.
August 12, 2024Parents hide children from mandatory evacuations as Ukraine says Russia advancing fast on key city
August 22, 2024
Two people have been hospitalized after fire engulfed an apartment building in east London, forcing its evacuation and sending thick black smoke into the air
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August 28, 2024
Nearly 100 residents evacuated from apartment building due to transformer explosion
September 01, 2024
Around 80 villagers were evacuated as a wildfire raged in the mountains of southwestern France on Thursday, authorities said.
September 12, 2024Students in school buildings and residents in nearby homes have been told to evacuate near Cincinnati after a dangerous chemical began leaking from a railcar
September 24, 2024
Shelter-in-place, evacuation orders lifted a day after chemical plant fire sent a plume containing chlorine high into the air
September 29, 2024
A chemical plant fire southeast of Atlanta is still causing trouble two days later
October 01, 2024
Evacuating is expensive, and for some people the risks of leaving can seem greater than staying despite the storm.
October 10, 2024
Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Friday barred his cabinet members from going on leave, after the displacement this week of more than 90,000 people in a growing
November 29, 2024
A small Swiss village that attracted global attention last year when it was evacuated because the mountain face above it threatened to collapse onto it must be evacuated again,
November 09, 2024
With destructive wildfires burning on both coasts, fire officials might use jargon unfamiliar to residents of states where such big blazes are relatively rare
November 12, 2024
Super typhoon Man-Yi swept across the Philippines' main island of Luzon on Sunday, threatening heavy rain in the capital region Metro Manila, after triggering more than a million
November 17, 2024
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