RANCHO MISSION VIEJO, Calif., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Firefighters in Southern California have contained 75 percent of a brush fire that burned more than 250 acres in Rancho Mission Viejo, authorities said.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Fire and rescue officials in Baltimore County, Md., said rescuers were able to extract an injured worker from the bottom of a 120-foot coal silo.
ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The FBI and hazardous materials investigators were analyzing a powdery substance that caused two Florida women to be hospitalized, officials say.
YORBA LINDA, Calif., March 10 (UPI) -- A magnitude 3.1 earthquake shook northern Orange County, Calif., Tuesday, part of series of recent small quakes in the area, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
GARDEN GROVE , Calif., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Health officials are warning Southern California residents to take precautions against a severe threat of mosquito-borne West Nile disease.
BUENA PARK, Calif., June 23 (UPI) -- Twenty-four people had to be rescued at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, Calif., when an observation tower became stuck, officials said.
BLOOMINGDALE, Fla., June 3 (UPI) -- Emergency responders in Bloomingdale, Fla., said it took them 3 1/2 hours to free a 15-year-old boy who became wedged while climbing a tree.
SANTA ANA, Calif., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Arson was considered a possible cause of one of the destructive wildfires burning across Southern California Wednesday.
SANTA ANA, Calif., April 24 (UPI) -- Fire ants are reappearing in California's Orange County the result, say some critics, of the state ending its fire ant eradication funding in 2003.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- A stubborn brush fire that swept through an Orange County canyon is nearly contained, California authorities said Sunday. The Sierra fire, which began nearly a week ago in Santa Ana Mountains, has consumed 10,854 acres, the Los Angeles Times reported.
