Evacuation tips

Wildfires that have ravaged some of the city’s most picturesque areas are continuing to grow. Firefighters responding to the emergencies say at least five people were killed in three major out of control blazes.

Wildfires in Los Angeles County continued to burn on Monday, January 13, 2025, as firefighters worked to contain portions of the deadly Eaton and Palisades fires, at 14% and 33% containment as of Monday morning. A total of 24 people were reported dead on Sunday evening.

The rampant wildfires consuming vast swathes of Los Angeles have forced around 180,000 people to evacuate. 

As of Thursday, January 9, the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have prompted evacuation orders for at least 130,000 residents and have burned more than 2,000 buildings and homes. If you've been displaced by the Los Angeles fires, you may be eligible for free housing through Airbnb.

As wildfires continue to burn across Los Angeles, we are gathering resources to help locals and travelers who are currently being displaced by the fires.

Three major wildfires in Los Angeles County continue to burn out of control as of Wednesday, January 8, 2025. The fires have promped evacuation orders for approximately 80,000 residents and have burned at least 1,000 buildings and homes.

Major airlines issued flight alerts and people in Los Angeles scrambled to evacuate as an out-of-control wildfire raged in the southern California city on Wednesday.

Some 1,200 tourists were evacuated on Tuesday from the iconic Paris landmark, the Eiffel Tower, after reports of a fire in one of its elevator shafts between the first and second floor.

Extreme weather is happening more frequently across the country, as we have seen this year with Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic impact on Asheville, N.C., November’s wildfires in New York and New Jersey and this month’s fast-spreading Malibu fire. Nearly 20 percent of all Americans have had to evacuate their homes because of unexpected severe weather, according to a new study by the analytics firm YouGov.

Authorities at London's Gatwick Airport have said a security alert that forced the evacuation of one of the terminals and delayed dozens of flights has been "resolved and cleared by police".

A volcano in Iceland has erupted for the seventh time since December, spewing red lava through a 3-kilometre fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula.

The South Terminal at London Gatwick Airport (LGW) was evacuated this morning after a suspicious item was found in a piece of luggage.

The Tampa Bay area and other parts of Florida's Gulf Coast are bracing for Hurricane Milton's impact.

Hurricane Milton is barreling towards Florida, heading in a west to east path from the Gulf of Mexico, like an ice cream cone trying to scoop up the state from the gulf through Orlando to the eastern shores. Currently, Milton is a category 5 hurricane (the highest level of hurricane) and is predicted to go directly over the Tampa Bay area early Wednesday morning.

A hiker remained missing on Sunday, according to the National Park Service, and more than 100 people were evacuated after flash flooding at a remote reservation on the border of Grand Canyon National Park.

Dangerous wildfires near Athens, Greece forced hundreds to evacuate the suburbs north of the country's capital on Monday, August 12, reported to be the worst fire the Mediterranean country has seen so far this year.

Joe Urie, owner of Jasper Tour Company, was looking for coyotes in Jasper National Park when “all of a sudden this fire bursts up.” He called it in, tried to put it out himself, then got back into his tour van and told his passengers, a group of travelers from England, “we gotta go.”

Several airports across the Caribbean have closed and airline travel alerts issued as Hurricane Beryl barrels toward Jamaica.

In Iceland, there’s a saying, Þetta reddast, used so frequently it’s often referred to as the nation’s unofficial motto. It means, roughly, “it's all going to work out in the end.”

An area of southern Italy near Naples has been experiencing a surge in seismic activity this week.

Winter, spring, summer or fall – it’s never a bad time to visit the Caribbean.