Al Jazeera posted a similar clip showing the crash in January 2024, predating the California wildfires by a year.

POV video shared on social media showed a firefighter extinguishing flames in a house in Chile, not California, contrary to claims online.

The footage in the post is not associated with the Los Angeles wildfires that began in January 2025. It was posted online before the fires started. Multiple Los Angeles area wildfires broke out in early January and continue to burn. Collectively, these fires have killed at least 25 and burned thousands of structures.

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Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, on her relationship with the city, its mythology, and a reckoning with disaster.

John Hope Bryant writes about how the solutions—creative, bold, and compassionate—to this devastating crisis are in our hands.

Days of extreme and unusual heat preceded Chile’s wildfires in February of 2024. Temperatures soared to the upper 30s – more than 15 degrees hotter than is normal for that time of year, especially in the valleys and foothills of central Chile.

A post on X purports to show GoPro footage of firefighters fighting wildfires currently ravaging Los Angeles. Verdict: False Footage seen is from a totally different fire, and has been used in viral videos before.

Los Angeles is dominated by chaparral, a type of scrub that occurs in Mediterranean climates where there is dense, rocky soil. And chaparral is dominated by pyrophytes, the name botanists give to plants that need fire—and smoke, as it has been recently found —to germinate seeds.

American tennis player Taylor Fritz is donating the prize money he earned for his first-round victory at the Australian Open — about $82,000 — to relief funds to help people affected by the wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area.

More than 35 people were trapped overnight and had to be rescued by firefighters when a ferris wheel in Chile stopped running. Meanwhile, an NHL goalie made history by scoring a goal and an assist in the same game.