LA fires live updates: Southern California gets break from fire-fanning winds but warnings persist
Local officials urged more than 90,000 residents to be alert and heed any evacuation warnings and orders as the fires rage ...
Hindustan Times Tech17d
Free Fire India to launch in New Year 2025: All latest details to know
In August 2023, Garena released a teaser announcing the return of the game under the new name, Free Fire India. (Garena Free Fire) Free Fire India: The wait is almost over for fans of the popular ...
Los Angeles Times17d
Fire crews contain blaze burning close to homes in Pacific Palisades
A Pacific Palisades brush fire that was burning close to homes early Wednesday morning has been contained, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The blaze was reported just after midnight ...
The New York Times19d
62 Fascinating Facts of 2024
Each day, Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear in articles. This year, tidbits about grudge-holding crows, the first-ever first kiss and George ...
The Straits Times19d
Three foreigners die in hotel fire in Bangkok’s backpacker district
BANGKOK-Three people from the United States, Brazil and Ukraine were killed after a fire broke out at a hotel near Bangkok’s popular backpacker district on the night of Dec 29, the authorities ...
New York Post19d
American tourist among 3 killed in fire that ripped through hotel in Thailand
An American tourist was among three killed when a fire ripped through a Bangkok hotel overnight, Thai authorities said Monday. The 35-year-old American, identified by local outlets as Freeman ...
Newsweek19d
NASA Apollo 11 Moon Rock Was Destroyed in a Fire, Records Reveal
A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.
The Hindu20d
Massive fire engulfs two chemical units in Boisar MIDC in Maharashtra
“A massive fire broke out on Sunday (December 29, 2024) in a chemical factory in Boisar-Tarapur MIDC in Palghar district of Maharashtra,” officials said. The raging blaze at U.K. Aromatic and ...
Smithsonian Magazine20d
A 1903 Fire at a Chicago Theater Killed 602 People, Prompting Enduring Safety Reforms
“If any good whatever shall come from this second great fire-blast which has visited the Western Metropolis,” the publishers of Marshall Everett’s The Great Chicago Theater Disaster wrote in ...
Daily Mail20d
Fire crews are now spending record amount of time and money on rescuing cats from trees - including more than £500,000 in London in just one year after post-pandemic pet boom
London Fire Brigade spent more than 76,600 minutes - which equals out to 53 days -assisting with animal incidents. Of these, 716 events were cat-related and is more than in any other year that ...
News20d
A Hotel Fire in Bangkok – How Did Three Tourists End Up Dead?
A fire at The Ember Hotel near Bangkok’s Khao San Road claimed the lives of three tourists late Sunday night, sending shockwaves through the bustling tourist district. The victims, identified as ...
The Irish Times22d
British under fire over claim Henry VIII cannons smuggled from Irish waters into Tower of London
The British were accused of putting on display rare cannons made for King Henry VIII which were stolen from Irish waters, declassified papers reveal. Two 9ft x 6″ bronze barge cannons were ...