As Los Angeles rebuilds after devastating wildfires, the histories of these three cities offer helpful guidance.

Rat: How did The Great Fire ... They used the fire hooks. But they didn’t stop the fire. Over the next two days, the fire doubled in size, and destroyed half the city of London.

January 4 marks the 125th anniversary of the fire considered as devastating as the Great Fire of London. The British ... They erected a monument in stone that stands on the nearby beach.

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

Montage only partly based on actual events It was the greatest cultural event that London ... full-size copies, and cheap replicas were a 19th century commonplace. The one shown at the Great ...

Once upon a time, going for a Chinese meal in London meant Cantonese in Chinatown. That central London enclave, packed with ...

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three days.

“It’s pretty crazy, the wind is also carrying the embers hundreds of feet so the fire is crossing huge, great freeways and ... the naming of a national monument by US President Joe Biden ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

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