Firefighters
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Drones may have captured some memorable images of the disaster but private users have been warned they’re risking lives by flying in areas where emergency services are working. “Please keep drones grounded to ensure emergency responders can do their jobs effectively,” said LA County Sheriffs on X. It comes after a water-dropping aircraft was damaged…
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Former US Olympian Gary Hall Jr believes he’s lost all of his medals in the Palisades wildfire. The 50-year-old told the Sydney Morning Herald that he had very little time to evacuate his house when he first noticed a plume of smoke outside. “It was worse than any apocalypse movie you’ve ever seen and 1,000…
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Firefighters will need to wait until the weather changes before they can get the fires under control, an expert in emergency planning and management has said. Professor David Alexander, who works at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, says most of the fires will continue to rage until the wind slows down. He says…
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More than 20,000 people who evacuated the Pacific Palisades on Tuesday have watched on TV for three days as their neighbourhood has burned without respite. They have heard the statistics – more than 50% of the buildings here have been reduced to rubble. But it is not sufficient preparation for what they will see in…
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Evacuation orders have been lifted for some people in the West Hills area of Los Angeles after the Kenneth Fire reached 35% containment, the county sheriffs department has said. It said the blaze had burned through 1,000 acres. The fast-moving Kenneth Fire started late yesterday afternoon in the San Fernando Valley just two miles (3.2km)…
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Hollywood actors including Chris Pratt and Josh Gad have praised the “brave firefighters” working to contain the wildfires. In a message to his more than 45m followers on Instagram, Guardians Of The Galaxy star Pratt, 45, urged people to “send prayers and strength” to those affected. He continued: “Thank you to the brave firefighters and…
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French authorities said two firefighters were killed and 47 people injured in a powerful explosion and fire apparently caused by a gas leak at a Paris bakery Saturday that blasted out windows and overturned cars. Firefighters pulled injured victims from windows and evacuated residents as smoke billowed over Rue de Trevise in the 9th arrondissement…
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A house is threatened by a huge blaze during a wildfire in Kineta, near Athens, Greece, on July 23, 2018 (Valerie Gache / AFP / Getty) A house burns during a wildfire in Kineta on July 23, 2018 Flames rise as a wildfire burns in the town of Rafina, near Athens, on July 23,…
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A British farmer who sought help from emergency services to rescue her two piglets and two sows from a barn fire in February has become an internet celebrity for the kindness she showed the officials a few months later. The livestock farmer returned bearing sausages made from the rescued animals, local media reports. A total…
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