A wind-driven wildfire eluded containment Thursday in eastern California’s remote Owens Valley but firefighters had so far kept it from harming small communities.
Nearly 140 years later, two fires still smolder in a now-abandoned coal field — the same area where a wildfire killed on person and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and buildings.
The U.S. Coast Guard searched on Tuesday for 39 people missing for several days after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized off Florida’s coast en route from the Bahamas.