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The Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia, located about 500 miles from the capital city of Addis Ababa, erupted on Sunday for the first time in about 12,000 years.

Two days of heavy rain in Southern California turned some streets in Long Beach into shallow rivers as some residents took to kayaks in what appeared for some to be more an entertaining novelty than a weather disaster.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is continuing a familiar pattern of shifting attention away from the Pacific Palisades fire, this time focusing on climate change and insurance access instead of addressing his administration’s role in the disaster.

Officials in Iran have begun cutting the water pressure to homes in Tehran in response to an increasingly dire drought and water supply crisis, but refused this week to describe the “pressure cuts” as rationing even as it reduced Tehranis’ access to water.

Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in the Philippines on Tuesday, blasting through the heavily-populated center of the country with driving rain and 120 mile per hour wind gusts.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded an investigation of the Palisades Fire on Friday, after text messages revealed that city firefighters abandoned the burn scar of a January 1 fire with smoldering roots that later re-ignited.

Several Oklahomans who were stranded in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa during their vacation are now stepping up to help the island’s residents get back on their feet.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said, through a spokesperson, that the state was not responsible for monitoring the burn scar of a January 1 fire (the “Lachman Fire”) that later erupted into the Palisades Fire on January 7.

Hurricane Melissa was roaring towards Jamaica early on Tuesday morning as a newly classified Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since records began 174 years ago.

Hurricane Melissa became a Category 5 storm early Monday and is forecast to cause extensive damage when it makes landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday.

Hurricane Melissa has been upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane as it threatens Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba while producing winds of 140 miles per hour after its wind speed doubled in under 24 hours.

California’s insurance companies are passing along the costs of the deadly Los Angeles fires to consumers, raising premiums, adding surcharges, and forcing them to subsidize the losses of the California FAIR plan.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) quietly signed legislation last month that will shield local utility companies from responsibility for wildfires and pass billions of dollars in costs to consumers and victims.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would require the state to develop a fire mitigation strategy, citing the cost — while spending $250 million on a vote to gerrymander congressional districts.

Numerous people are dead in Mexico after heavy rains caused flooding and landslides, and video footage shows the devastation left behind. 

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) was reportedly missing as Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way (D) declared a state of emergency on Saturday night as a storm, bringing heavy rain and winds, made its way up the East Coast.

A human foot washed up Friday on one of the busiest beaches on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza — a picturesque tourist hot spot off the eastern coast of Spain.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 79 on Friday, which fast-tracks high-rise development within half a mile of transportation hubs, provoking fears that the state would pursue densification in fire-ravaged areas.

Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly burned a bible prior to setting off the Palisades fire that took over 6,000 homes and 12 innocent lives. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) whined Wednesday that President Donald Trump has ignored his request for $40 billion in fire aid — after launching a $250 million special election to strip Republican House seats.

Residents of the Pacific Palisades reacted Wednesday to news of the arrest of an alleged arsonist in the January 7 Palisades Fire by noting that the arrest raises more questions about city and state fire responses.

A huge blizzard swept the slopes of Mount Everest over the weekend, trapping hundreds of climbers and forcing rescue workers to conduct high-altitude evacuations.

The volunteer leader of the rebuilding effort for the city of Malibu, California, which was hit hard by the Palisades Fire in January, resigned in protest this week over the slow pace of permits to rebuild homes.

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara spent lavishly on travel across the country and around the world, billing taxpayers for California Highway Patrol protection, while missing key meetings in the state.

An incredible amount of silver and gold coins have been found over 300 years after a Spanish fleet sank off Florida’s Treasure Coast.

The Los Angeles County supervisors blasted a $1.9 million report Tuesday on the reasons for the catastrophic failure of a local evacuation system, whose delays likely contributed to 18 deaths during wildfires in January.

New apartment construction in Los Angeles has all but shut down, thanks in part to Measure ULA, the so-called “mansion tax” that applies to all buildings, including apartments, that sell for $5.3 million or more.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has written to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to ask for an accounting of how the State of California has spent federal funding his department allocated for wildfire prevention.

A search and rescue effort is underway for more potential victims after a flash flood in southern Arizona took at least four lives and unleashed 1000 potentially dangerous propane tanks into the surging waters.

The southeast U.S. is bracing for a potential storm impact, as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) tracks a disturbance in the Atlantic, currently known as Invest 94.

Meteorologists are keeping a sharp eye on second storm brewing in the Atlantic that could impact, or even join, Hurricane Humberto as it becomes a Category 3 storm on a path toward the southeastern coast of the United States.

An “after-action” report prepared for Los Angeles County found this week that the county’s alert and evacuation systems suffered from weaknesses that led to disaster in the Palisades and Eaton fires in January.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned of two tropical disturbances that could turn into storms within the week.

A wrongful death lawsuit filed against HTR TX Hill Country Resort, a luxury RV park and campground on the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, is growing after the families of 12 additional victims joined the case. The suit was initially filed on behalf of the family of Jayda Floyd, a 22-year-old Texas woman who died during the deadly Independence Day floods in Kerr County.

Former Vice President Al Gore said global momentum behind renewable energy is strengthening but warned that American politics are being skewed by President Donald Trump’s opposition to climate initiatives, creating what he called a “distortion field.”

The California legislature has passed SB 79, which would override local zoning laws to build dense housing near transportation hubs. But residents of fire zones worry it will be used to densify their neighborhoods.