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(LOS ANGELES) -- Late at night on Jan. 6, Los Angeles Emergency Management Department General Manager Carol Parks sent a text message wishing Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley a happy new year.“It's my first opportunity to send this Public Safety leadership text,” Parks wrote. “Wishing it could have been on a blue sky day, but duty now calls.”The following day, Los Angeles would witness the start of what […]

(THE CAROLINAS) -- Firefighters were battling 175 wildfires that erupted across South and North Carolina overnight amid windy and dry conditions, threatening homes and prompting evacuations, authorities said.There are ongoing response operations to the sprawling wildfires that had burned a combined 4,200 acres across the state as of Sunday -- including blazes burning in Horry, Spartanburg, Oconee, Union and Pickens counties, the South Carolina State Fire Marshal said Sunday.One of […]

Carsten Rehder/picture alliance via Getty Images (BATON ROUGE, LA.) -- Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, went into lockdown after a shooting took place on campus Sunday evening.The incident, which took place in the Ulysses S. Jones Hall dormitory, left at least one person injured and taken to the hospital, according to ABC affiliate WBRZ. Their condition is unknown.No identities related to the incident have been released.The school posted a […]