Nevada’s largest utility plans to inspect power lines near a Reno neighborhood where a 2020 wildfire destroyed five homes and damaged two dozen others, a blaze that investigators blamed on arching power lines in gale force winds along the Sierra’s …
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy approved a disaster declaration for Hooper Bay, after the community’s sewer lagoon breached. Hooper Bay Mayor Sandra Hill said the lagoon breached Friday night, prompting an emergency meeting of the city council. Hill told Anchorage TV …
Firefighters in San Francisco rescued 15 people and seven cats and dogs as flames ripped through an apartment building, officials said. The fire burned on the third and fourth floors of the building in the city’s South of Market neighborhood, …
Several abandoned buildings at the historic Los Angeles County Poor Farm were destroyed by fire, fire departments said. At least five agencies responded and the fire was contained in buildings on the vacant south campus of the county’s public rehabilitation …
A boiler explosion at a potato chip plant south of Hermiston, Oregon, sparked a dramatic fire Tuesday afternoon. The Tri-City Herald reports Umatilla County Fire District 1 and the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office were called to the Shearer’s Foods plant …
An intense fire burned a downtown Los Angeles commercial building early Friday. More than 100 firefighters were brought in to battle the fire, which was declared a major emergency, the Fire Department said. Firefighters made quick progress against flames on …
The families of two California firefighters killed in a 2020 blaze are suing several makers of life-saving equipment for negligence, alleging the devices were defective and caused their loved ones’ deaths, the Sacramento Bee reported. Porterville Fire Department Capt. Ramon …
A wildfire near Bishop, California, is only 20% contained, however evacuation orders have been lifted. The Airport Fire, which started on Wednesday, has burned 4,136 acres. At one point it had threatened 150 structures, according to CalFire. “Forward rate of …
Union Pacific Railroad will be reimbursing Tempe nearly $482,000 for expenses related to the July 2020 train derailment, according to city officials. They said the reimbursement covers repair and replacement of damaged city property, incident response costs, traffic control, environmental …
The U.S. Forest Service in Oregon will receive more than $262 million in federal disaster funding to help with wildfire recovery. Oregon Public Broadcasting reported the money is part of a $1.1 billion disaster assistance bill that passed last year …
