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Officials in northeastern China have evacuated more than 50,000 people as floodwaters collapse houses and cut off transportation in some areas, state media reported Saturday.

Two fires sprang up in northern Los Angeles County Thursday. An out-of-control wildfire burning north of State Route 14 was closing in on homes in the hills around Palmdale.

A brush fire devoured 30 to 40 homes and triggered evacuations in a remote section of a southern California mountains community on Tuesday, a Kern County Fire Department engineer said.

A wildfire raging near Flagstaff, Arizona, has grown to more than 5,000 acres, shutting down part of U.S. Route 89, and it is wholly uncontained, according to the Coconino County website.

A volcano under a glacier in Iceland rumbled back to life Wednesday, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing ...

Evacuation alarms sounded in Hawaii’s vulnerable coastal areas as the region prepared for what federal officials say could be a dangerous tsunami.

Crews waded through thigh-high mud to check for gas leaks and survey damage as evacuated residents waited to find out if they could return to their homes.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa urged hundreds of Californians to heed evacuation orders and flee their homes before a dangerous storm hits their area Wednesday morning.

The discovery of a hazardous substance inside a passenger's luggage prompted the evacuation of the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield on Tuesday morning.

Authorities in Puerto Rico on Friday ordered the evacuation of hundreds more residents from homes around a huge fire at an oil depot which spewed a column of toxic black smoke into the sky near the capital San Juan.