As the smoke clears from devastating Los Angeles wildfires, efforts to clean up the affected areas are being complicated by burnt-out electric and hybrid vehicles and home-battery storage systems.

The Amorphophallus titanium plant, or Bunga Bangkai – which in Indonesian translates to “corpse flower” – only unfurls its petals every few years and then for around a mere 24 hours.

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Charred hazardous waste and large debris must be cleared by professional crews, and the underlying soil needs to be treated to remove toxic chemicals that burned into it. “It’s not the same as ...

“Some areas will be burned completely, but other areas nearby will be untouched, and you’ll have islands of unburned fuel.” In an urban environment, “why one (house) survives might be some ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A mother was convicted of mayhem on Tuesday after her 2-year-old daughter was severely burned in San Francisco and she didn’t go to a hospital until weeks later ...

A Jan. 10 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows an aerial view of a mansion burning down. "P Diddy's California mansion has been completely consumed by fire," reads text within the post ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An arson suspect who was arrested Tuesday in Pacoima admitted he started a small fire that burned a tree "because he liked the smell of burning leaves," according to Los ...

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, human rights activist, Harrison Gwamnishi, said the attackers murdered and dumped her corpse around Ideani junction, along Nnobi/Alor road. Gwamnishi also released a ...

Los Angles Fires: The devastating wildfires raging through Los Angeles have claimed another celebrity's life, with the tragic discovery of retired actress Dalyce Curry's remains at her burnt ...

An estimated 100,000 scores by Schoenberg, the groundbreaking 20th-century composer, were destroyed when the publishing company his heirs founded burned down. By Javier C. Hernández An estimated ...