The 2023 Maui wildfires serve as a grim reminder of what can happen when evacuation plans fail. In Lahaina, over 100 lives ...

The battalion flying the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a jet Wednesday night has a unique mission set — quickly evacuating top U.S. officials to secure locations.

As the deadly LA wildfires and other major emergencies have shown, alerts rely on a complicated chain of communication ...

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Evacuation orders and warnings were issued to more than 31,000 people in the vicinity of two new wildfires north of Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los ...

Within 40 minutes, a dire alert: “LEAVE NOW.” But neighborhoods in western Altadena did not see the same urgency, as evacuation orders didn’t arrive until early the following morning ...

but it was just outside an evacuation warning zone. “Understandably, everyone is on heightened alert,” the mayor, Bill Miranda, said at a news conference. Overnight plans: Chief Anthony ...

"We do have a plan in place to evacuate the rest of the ... Council and Justice LA posted to social media advocating for the evacuation of Pitchess inmates. "We demand that the Los Angeles County ...

But by late afternoon, when the flames had spread to more than 8,000 acres, Luna told The Times that he’d started making plans for a large-scale evacuation should one become necessary.

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings Wednesday as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles ...

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A man and woman from Oregon were arrested after the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said they attempted to enter the Palisades fire evacuation zone in a decommissioned fire engine, authorities ...