As Los Angeles rebuilds after devastating wildfires, the histories of these three cities offer helpful guidance.

I could not help but reflect on how money works in times of disaster, whether that disaster is caused by the climate or conflict or cyberterrorism.

And London was not alone. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, city leaders built a massive new opera house. A month after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the French actress Sarah Bernhardt gave a ...

Several local people kept a diary of events in Basingstoke over the years, including Samuel Attwood, who wrote for more than ...

January brings with it a sense of renewal, of the opportunity to start afresh and to make resolutions to improve ourselves and our lives.

Community members have rallied around him after a fire destroyed his home. Samuel Grey Horse is known for spreading holiday cheer by dressing up as Santa Claus and riding around the city on horseback.

The Austin Fire Department works to extinguish the fire at Samuel Grey Horse's home. Grey Horse says what remains of the house will probably be torn down. (720x960, AR: 0.75) The fire originated from ...

But what do those figures mean, exactly? Containment refers to how much of the fire’s edge, or perimeter, has been surrounded to the extent that firefighters believe they can stop the fire from ...

Officials said they have not ruled out whether embers from the New Year's Eve fire sparked back up amid high winds on Jan. 7. In the photo below, Patrick O'Neal sifts through the remains of his ...

Samuel M. Feldman, former chairman ... the Feldman family resorted to a London telephone directory and selected the name Webster — which they thought had an elegant cachet to it — according ...

Andy Roe said he was "incredibly proud" of the brigade's achievements in the last five years The London Fire Brigade (LFB) commissioner Andy Roe has announced that he will be retiring after ...