Sources: NBC
The number of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest reaches its highest number in fourteen years at 38,266 fire hotspots as a result of an ongoing drought in South America. 2024-09-1
At least 26,000 people are forced to evacuate amidst dozens of large wildfires in Northern California, United States. 2024-07-3
The International Olympic Committee approves the inclusion of cricket, flag football, lacrosse, squash, and baseball-softball at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. 2023-10-16
The death toll from wildfires in Algeria increases to 38 with 200 others suffering from burns and respiratory problems. Firefighters are still trying to contain 39 forest fires in the north of the country, according to officials. 2022-08-18
Los Angeles begins to implement the U.S. strictest vaccine mandate that required people to show their proof of full vaccination or negative COVID-19 test results in the previous 72 hours in order to enter most indoor venues and large outdoor events of more than 5,000 attendes. 2021-11-8
The Los Angeles Unified School District approves a vaccine mandate for children over the age of 12 in Los Angeles schools. 2021-09-9
Smoke from wildfires in Siberia is detected in the Geographic North Pole for the first time in recorded history, according to NASA. The space agency says that as of August 6 "most of Russia" is covered in smoke, while Russia's weather monitoring institute Rosgidromet says that the situation "continues to deteriorate" in the far-eastern Sakha region with around 3.4 million hectares (8.4 million acres) of land currently on fire. 2021-08-9
A wildfire destroys 25 homes, displaces 100,000 people and burns over 7,500 acres of forest in and around Los Angeles. 2019-10-11
Two 15-year-old students are seriously wounded and three other people injured in a shooting at Sal Castro Middle School in Los Angeles, California. A 12-year-old female student is taken into custody. 2018-02-1
Firefighters battle wildfires across southern France, including one in Corsica. 2017-07-25