Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter. Sign Me Up By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Tweet may have been deleted Santa Monica, the LA County coastal city that already endured evacuation orders and warnings du...
New fire near West Hills neighborhood forces more evacuations More evacuations are underway across Los Angeles because of another fire that ignited Thursday afternoon. The Los Angeles Fire Department issued orders for what’s being called the Kenneth Fire ...
Putting all this together suggests to me that 1 mi. is probably excessive for even as much as 3 pounds of dynamite (9 sticks, thanks anonymous); still I am quite grateful the DoD experts seem not to leave up to a county sheriff to determine whether that pile of stuff is road flares, ...
While the fire burning on a hillside near the university has been extinguished, the move to not evacuate drew concern from some residents as fire resources – including air drops – responded to protect those on campus, leaving some nearby houses continuing to burn. The university tweeted several...
tremendous losses, being forced to sell their homes and belongings on very short notice and to live in crowded and unsanitary conditions. A few Japanese Americans challenged the constitutionality of the evacuation orders, but the Supreme Court at first ruled against them. In the years since the ...
Newly appointed President Barack Obama signed orders to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and put a stop to the use of torture in interrogations. In April, Somali pirates hijacked the American freighter Maersk Alabama and kidnapped its captain. As the U.S. Navy engaged in a stand...
a prisoner. We passed very near the onetime location of Fort Defiance, todayrecalled in the name of one of my favorite restaurants, and we could see down a street towardsthe Sixpoint Brewery, the six points reminding me of a 18th-century fort layout, even though the six point star isan ...
David and his comrades were still expecting to be evacuated with everyone else.But Pr ime Minister Winston Churchill gave orders that they were to fight to the last round and the last man, keeping the Germans at bay to allow the great escape from Dunkirk.David said: "There was no rest fo...
These periodic reprieves make us (and our elected representatives) seem to forget all the bad stuff for a while and we never find the will to do all the post-mortems that we (and they) should also be conducting–like why prescription drugs are orders-of-magnitude cheaper in Canada or Mexi...