A fast-moving fire near Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra has forced the evacuation of a small mountain town of 332 residents and shut down a key section of U.S. Highway 395, a vital artery that links rural communities along the eastern spine of California's Sierra Nevada.

OAKLAND — Firefighters rescued a father and his toddler son on Thursday night from an apartment complex fire in Oakland’s School neighborhood, officials said. The blaze erupted in another unit, and father and son were uninjured.

A major incident has been declared by the emergency services after a huge fire broke out at a recycling warehouse in Rushden, Northamptonshire. We will bring you all the updates on the fire on this dedicated live text page.

According to a Facebook post from Fire Chief Jason St. Onge, members of the fire department set up a rig for a technical rescue after a young man went over the cliff and got stuck.

In a major post-fire milestone Friday, Pacific Coast Highway reopened to traffic for the first time since the Palisades fire incinerated homes and businesses along the oceanfront in January.

The city’s Ombudsman’s office said the Portland Fire Bureau did a poor job of both documenting its decision-making process and communicating with residents, but it concluded the plans for the Habitat for Humanity project were approved correctly in 2019 under Portland’s fire codes at the time.

Justin Halstenberg faces life in prison, prosecutors said, for starting a blaze that burned nearly 44,000 acres in Southern California last fall.

Sleepy Fire initially started today at 11:18 a.m. in Sonoma County. It has burned 2.9 acres of private land after being active for less than an hour, an increase of three acres since the last update. Currently, there is no data on the containment status of the fire and the cause has yet to be determined.