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The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

‘We knew we couldn’t stop everything’: a fire controller looks back on Australia’s black summer

More than 80,000 people helped battle the 2019-20 bushfires. Five years on one remembers the blur of days

The Guardian - AU

LA fires: international crews arrive to battle raging wildfires as evacuations spread

Neighborhoods under orders now include Encino and Brentwood, with the Getty Center and its art collection

The Guardian - US

We built our world with fire. Now heat is destroying our lives

We fell in love with the power and speed that fossil fuels brought us. But the price being paid in California, and around the world, has become too high

The Guardian - UK

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Los Angeles wildfires: Desperate search for victims as menacing winds forecast to return

Fire chiefs warned of a ‘significant flare-up’ on the blaze's eastern edge, with flames now moving northeast

Evening Standard

Los Angeles is on fire and big oil are the arsonists

Every barrel of oil, every cubic meter of gas, and every ton of coal burned brings us closer to environmental catastrophe

The Guardian - US

Is climate change to blame for the California wildfires?

Climate scientist say warming temperatures and droughts are making wildfires more frequent and intense.

Al Jazeera

‘There’s literally nothing’: surrounded by destruction, Los Angeles begins to process scale of loss

Returning Pacific Palisades residents were grieving not just homes turned to ash, but memories buried amid the rubble

The Guardian - US

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Governor doubles national guard in LA as firefighters arrive from Mexico and Canada – as it happened

Palisades and Eaton fires start coming under control as fierce winds ease but forecasters predict another red flag warning for Monday. This blog is now closed.

The Guardian - US

Stern arrest warning issued after LA fires air tanker is grounded by crash with civilian drone

The plane is likely to be out of action until Monday

The Independent UK

Are cars 'structures'? Here's a look at how damage is tallied in devastating Los Angeles wildfires

The damage from wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area is horrific however it’s tallied

The Independent UK

Devastation of raging Los Angeles fires visible from space in satellite images

Satellite images show destruction caused by huge, fast-moving fires raging this week in Southern California.

Space

LA fires burn area twice the size of Manhattan – worst the city has seen in recent history

California has seen deadly blazes over the years – Camp fire decimated Paradise town in 2018 and Tubbs fire burned 36,810 acres in 2017

The Guardian - US

CSAC: No decision made on UFC 311 as Los Angeles wildfires wreak havoc

Will UFC 311 go on as planned at Intuit Dome? That is the question as Los Angeles endures an extreme wildfire disaster.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s what Los Angeles needs to know

The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed thousands of structures, many of them homes, and firefighters continue to battle the infernos. Parts of Pacific Palisades, Altadena, Pasadena and other California communities are now unrecognizable.

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Al Jazeera

Los Angeles faces more fire evacuations even as fierce winds ease

Officials hope improved wind conditions will allow firefighters to contain wildfires that have devastated the US city.

Latin Times

Biden Makes Inadvertent Pun About California Wildfires To Harris, Whose House Is Under Evacuation Order

"Madame Vice President, I know you're directly affected so you fire away, no pun intended," Biden said

The Independent UK

Saving Torah scrolls and saying prayers, Los Angeles fires leave congregants without worship spaces

Among the thousands of buildings destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires were a mosque, a synagogue, a Catholic parish and a half-dozen Protestant churches

Kiplinger

Wildfire Smoke Is Here to Stay. Here’s How to Clean the Air Inside Your Home.

A guide to cleaning the air in your home amid wildfires.

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Latin Times

Civilian Drone That Grounded Canadian Plane Battling LA Wildfires is Keeping 1,500 Gallons of Water Per Flight Out of The Fight

The "Super Scooper" is designed to gather ocean water and dump it over active fires

The Independent UK

Wildfires latest: 10 confirmed dead as firefighters work to contain blazes in Los Angeles area

Firefighters are hoping for a break from the fierce winds that have fueled massive blazes in the Los Angeles area, killing 10 people, obliterating whole neighborhoods and setting the nation’s second-largest city on edge

The Guardian - AU

Giant pink slug makes a comeback on extinct volcano in NSW national park

Exclusive: The kaputar slug, which can grow longer than a human hand, was almost wiped out in the black summer bushfires of 2019-20

The Guardian - US

California fires: 16 killed and 10,000 structures destroyed as blazes continue

Strong winds and low humidity continue as five fires rage across Los Angeles area, with death toll expected to rise

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Death toll expected to rise in Los Angeles as another fire erupts

At least 20 arrests have been made over looting, with Santa Monica declaring a curfew. Plus, the arguments for and against banning TikTok

The Independent UK

Man arrested by citizens near Kenneth fire not charged with arson, police say

Law enforcement officers responded to reports of a man attempting to light a fire behind a van in Woodland Hills.

The Independent UK

Everything we know about man arrested near Kenneth blaze as LA wildfires rage

Authorities said there was not enough probable cause to arrest the man on suspicion of arson, but he has been charged with a felony probation violation

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