Sources: NBC
A van crashes into a ravine and catches fire in Nuevo León, Mexico, killing twelve people and injuring four others. The vehicle fire also sparked a small wildfire in the surrounding forest. 2025-03-23
The estimated area burned by wildfires in Brazil this year reaches 37.6 e6ha, an area larger than the size of Germany and more than double the yearly average from 2012–2023. 2024-09-14
A new brush fire in Maui, United States, burns up to 10 acres in a Kaanapali neighborhood located a few miles from the Lahaina area damaged by wildfires, prompting evacuations. The evacuation order is lifted after the fire was contained. 2023-08-26
Portugal issues warnings of temperatures as high as 43 °C amid a drought and wildfires in parts of the country. 2022-07-8
The wildfires in Uljin County increase to 24,000 hectares, becoming the most destructive wildfires in South Korean history. 2022-03-11
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti pledges to cut the budget of the Los Angeles Police Department by up to $150 million in the wake of allegations of police misconduct during protests. 2020-06-3
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
A revenge porn website is shutdown in San Diego after the owner, Kevin Christopher Bollaert, is accused of extorting money from one of its victims. 2013-12-11
Three people are injured after a hostage situation takes place in a Nordstrom Rack chain in the neighborhood of Westchester in Los Angeles, California. 2013-01-11
A Los Angeles jury finds David Viens, the Lomita chef who told authorities that he cooked his dead wife’s body to dispose of it, guilty of second-degree murder. 2012-09-27