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State authorities evacuated the entire town of Merryville, Louisiana near the Texas border as an "unprecedented" rash of wildfires hit the area. Police told residents the evacuations were mandatory. The 1,200 residents who call Merryville home were forced to leave. "We’ve never had to fight this many fires simultaneously and at this duration," said Mike Strain, the commissioner for Louisiana’s

Aug 18 (Reuters) - Canadian firefighters are racing against advancing flames on Friday to evacuate all residents from the remote northern city of Yellowknife, with unfavorable winds threatening to complicate one of the biggest rescue efforts of the fire season. In Yellowknife, the capital city of Northwest Territories, fire crews and water bombers are trying to save the city of about 20,000

The Americana Mall in Glendale, California, was a “ghost town” Thursday night after being evacuated due to a “suspicious toilet” that was ditched near a movie theatre with a threatening note, Glendale Police told NBC News. The toilet was was left at around 8:00 p.m. in a grassy area near an AMC Theatre, with the note allegedly claiming the toilet was a bomb and that it was going to explode. It

Evacuation orders have been issued for a wildfire that started Wednesday in the Tahoe National Forest near Emigrant Gap. The Highway Fire was reported by Nevada County emergency officials around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, and within an hour evacuation orders were in place. As of Thursday morning, the order covered 17 square miles between Highway 20 and the South Fork Yuba River, including the