Octavia Butler predicted fire disaster in Los Angeles in 1993 book 'Parable of the Sower'
Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
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Book excerpt: "Fire Weather" by John Vaillant
A 2023 National Book Award finalist, "Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World" (Vintage Books), by bestselling author John Vaillant, recounts the rise of climate science and the ...
YA Author Launches Book Drive For Teachers Impacted By LA Wildfires
LA teacher Veronica Bane began collecting books for classrooms who had lost their libraries in the wildfires. She's already ...
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Pale Fire Brewery's Books and Brews mixes literature and beer
Books and Brews is precisely what it sounds like. Pale Fire Brewery in downtown Harrisonburg invites local authors to discuss ...
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LAFD bosses sent just 5 fire engines to Palisades Fire — while holding back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in critical first hours
Los Angeles fire bosses deployed just a fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five of the 40 available fire ...
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14 Epic Facts About ‘Streets of Fire’
Four decades ago, director Walter Hill released a strange, genre-hopping film that would go on to be one of the great cult classics of the 1980s. It might not have succeeded at the box office, but ...
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Israeli Government Approves Gaza Cease-Fire
Israel’s full cabinet has begun meeting to vote on the cease-fire and hostage release deal with Hamas, said two Israeli officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not ...
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Crews stop forward progress of fast-moving brush fire in Ventura County
Crews rapidly got a handle on yet another Southern California fire that was reported in Oxnard on Monday night. Live footage from AlertCalifornia showed flames of the Auto Fire spreading near the ...
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See how a small fire in L.A. turned into a monster, hour by hour
There were foreboding warnings before the Palisades Fire would spark early Tuesday — a blaze that would rapidly rip through a residential neighborhood on Los Angeles’ west side, forcing the ...
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Acushnet house fire kills 2 elderly residents on Christmas morning: What we know so far
ACUSHNET — Two elderly residents in their 80s were killed in a house fire early Christmas morning, and a firefighter suffered injuries but is expected to recover. “On behalf of the Acushnet ...
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Middle East Highlights: Israel’s Cease-Fire Deal With Hamas to Take Effect Sunday
Aaron Boxerman Israel’s cease-fire agreement with Hamas will go into ... two days after it was announced, and the full cabinet followed with final approval during a meeting that continued ...
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California wildfires destroy home of Paradise fire moviemaker in tragic case of life imitating art
A documentary filmmaker behind "Rebuilding Paradise" is now living the life she once documented after losing everything in the Palisades Fire ... Lizzie Johnson’s book "Paradise: One Town ...