Best wall-mounted electric heaters to keep you toasty all winter
Winter is coming folks. While the colder season gives us the licence to curl up under cosy blankets and crack into the hot ...
USA Today12d
IRS fires 6,000 employees as Donald Trump, Elon Musk slash US government
The White House has not said how many of the nation's 2.3 million civil-service workers it wants to fire and has given no numbers on the mass layoffs. Roughly 75,000 took a buyout offer last week.
Los Angeles Times15d
Evacuations failed and 85 people died during California’s deadliest wildfire. What are lessons for L.A.?
By 8 a.m. Nov. 8, 2018, when embers began to rain down on the town of Paradise, most residents had not been ordered to evacuate — even though an hour and a half had passed since the fire was ...
CNN15d
People are buying up burned lots in LA. Should they be concerned about future fires?
In pricey Los Angeles, where single-family homes under $1 million are hard to come by, even destructive fires haven’t deterred willing buyers. This month, a burned lot in affluent Pacific ...
MIT Technology Review16d
One option for electric vehicle fires? Let them burn.
Putting out a fire in an internal-combustion car might take as little as 30 minutes and a few hundred gallons of water, he notes, while an electric car battery fire could take upwards of 4,000 ...
New Atlas16d
2,000-W electric unicycle burns rubber but declared fire safe
Though China's InMotion does roll out crazy powerful electric unicycles for adventure ... and systems are designed to reduce the risk of fire and electrical hazards – the V9 also comes with ...
The New Zealand Herald17d
Greenlane electric car fire: Police hunt for arsonist after vehicles on Kawau Rd targeted
Church fires in Masterton labelled suspicious. Luigi Mangione appears in court. Video / NZ Herald Auckland police are hunting an arsonist who torched an electric car on a shared driveway in the ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser18d
Hawaiian Electric’s parent rebuilds finances after Maui fires lead to $1.4B loss
Hawaiian Electric is the state’s largest utility ... wanted to obtain reimbursement of claims paid to customers with fire losses directly from the settlement payers through litigation.
ABC718d
Mayor Karen Bass fires LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley 'effective immediately'
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass terminated LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley Friday afternoon, blaming her for improperly staffing the Palisades and Eaton fires. "Acting in the best ...
Time18d
L.A. Fire Chief Dismissed Amid Controversy Over Handling of Devastating January Wildfires
LOS ANGELES — Six weeks after the start of the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation18d
Victorians urged to prepare for wild weather and potential fires this weekend
Total fire bans have been declared for the Mallee, Wimmera, North Central, South West and Central regions of Victoria on Saturday. Temperatures are expected to reach the low 40s in the state's ...
CNN19d
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass fires Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, citing her response to Palisades wildfire
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Friday she has fired Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, citing in part her response to last month’s devastating Palisades wildfire, among the most des ...