California Wildfires 2018: Camp Fire November 9, 2018 – Paradise, California, U.S. – In the town of Magalia entire streets of homes went up in flames as the Camp Fire showed aggressive behavior late into the night and early morning. Driven by high winds this fire has been very difficult to contain and firefighters have focused on getting residents out of the fire zone and to safety first. Photo Credit © Neal Waters via ZUMAPress
California Wildfires 2018: Woolsey Fire November 9, 2018 – Malibu, California, U.S. – In a long exposure image, the Woolsey Fire burns in the hills above Malibu Friday evening as seen from Pacific Coast Highway. The Santa Ana Wind driven fire destroyed homes and was burning near the Pacific Ocean. Photo Credit © Stuart Palley via ZUMAPress.
California Wildfires 2018: Hill Fire November 9, 2018 – Oak Park, California, US – Overnight firefighters battle the Hill Fire in Santa Rosa Valley Thursday night into Friday morning. One of two wind-driven brush fires that erupted in Ventura County exploded to 8,000 acres amid even stronger winds early Friday. Approximately 75,000 homes are under evacuation orders along the Ventura-Los Angeles border. Photo Credit © Gene Blevins via ZUMAPress
California Wildfires 2018: Hill Fire November 9, 2018 – Oak Park, California. Overnight firefighters battle the Hill Fire in Santa Rosa Valley Thursday night into Friday morning. One of two wind-driven brush fires that erupted in Ventura County Thursday exploded to 8,000 acres amid even stronger winds early Friday. Approximately 75,000 homes are under evacuation orders along the Ventura-Los Angeles border. Photo Credit © Gene Blevins via ZUMAPress
California Wildfires 2018: Woolsey Fire November 9, 2018 – Malibu, California Firefighters and local residents battle the Woosley fire Friday. The fire cross the 101 freeway early this morning and made a run to Malibu coast line destroying many homes and now is over 38,000 acres Malibu. Photo Credit © Gene Blevins via ZUMAPress
California Wildfires 2018: Camp Fire November 8, 2018 – Paradise, California Chico Fire and Rescue firefighters help VERA LOYD into a medical transport so she can be evacuated from the Paradise Skilled Nursing home. Photo Credit © Neal Waters via ZUMAPress
California Wildfires 2018: Camp Fire November 11, 2018 – Paradise, California An abandoned vehicle is tagged with police tape as it sits on the side of Pearson Road after the Camp Fire in Paradise. The death toll in wildfires sweeping California has risen to 31, with more than 200 people still missing. Six more people were confirmed killed in the Camp Fire in the north of the state, taking the toll there to 29. It now equals the deadliest wildfire on record in California, the 1933 Griffith Park disaster in Los Angeles. In south, the Woolsey Fire has claimed two lives as it damaged beach resorts including Malibu. Photo Credit © Paul Kitagaki Jr. via ZUMAPress
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Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting November 8, 2018 – Newbury Park, California A motorcade on the 101 freeway of local law enforcement officers escort the hearse carrying fallen Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus. Helps was killed after entering the scene of a mass shooting during college night at a Thousand Oaks nightclub. The shooter David Long (28) killed 12 people. Photo Credit © Gene Blevins via #ZUMAPress
Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting November 7-8, 2018 Thousand Oaks, California People comfort each other outside the Borderline Bar and Grill where a gunman killed 12 people in Thousand Oaks, California. Ventura County sheriff’s spokesman says gunman is dead inside the bar. Photo Credit © Ringo Chiu via #ZUMAPress
Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting November 8, 2018 Newbury Park, California. Hundreds of local law enforcement, firefighters and residents line up on freeway over passes to pay their respects to fallen Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus, who died after entering the scene of a mass shooting during college night at a Thousand Oaks nightclub. The shooter David Long (28) killed 13 people. Photo Credit © Gene Blevins via #ZUMAPress
Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting Hundreds of local law enforcement, firefighters and residents line up on freeway over passes to pay their respects to fallen Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus, who died after entering the scene of a mass shooting during college night at a Thousand Oaks nightclub on Wednesday night Nov 8, 2018. The shooter David Long, 28-year-old is the shooter and among the 13 dead. Photo Credit © Gene Blevins via #ZUMAPress
Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting November 7-8, 2018 A law enforcement officer guards inside the Borderline Bar and Grill where a gunman injured 11 people in Thousand Oaks, California. Ventura County sheriff’s spokesman says gunman is dead inside the bar. Photo Credit © Ringo Chiu via #ZUMAPress
Gunman Kills 12 In Thousand Oaks Shooting November 8-7, Thousand Oaks, CA Law enforcement officers guard the road leading to the Borderline Bar and Grill where a gunman injured 11 people in Thousand Oaks, California. Ventura County sheriff’s spokesman says gunman is dead inside the bar. Photo Credit © Ringo Chiu via #ZUMAPress
November 7, 2018. When tragedy struck the Borderline Bar and Grill on Wednesday ZUMA Wire Service award winning photographers RINGO CHIU and GENE BLEVINS were dispatched on an assignment for ZUMA Wire Service.
The number of people facing starvation in Yemen could rise to nearly 12 million as conflict intensifies around the port of Hodeidah, a vital aid delivery link, according to the World Food Program. A collapsing currency and deteriorating economic situation in the Middle East’s poorest country are also aggravating the situation. 18 million people in Yemen already do not know where their next meal is coming from and eight million of those are ‘considered on the brink of famine.’ Yemenis are starving because of war. No natural disaster is responsible. No amount of humanitarian aid can solve the underlying problem. Without an immediate, significant course change, portions of the country, under the watch of the UN Security Council, will likely tip into famine. UNICEF reports that 460,000 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. Avoiding famine, if this is still possible, requires the Saudi Arabia-led coalition, supporting the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi against Houthi rebels and fighters aligned with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, to halt what promises to be a bloody battle for Yemen’s most important port, Hodeida. Yemenis need a ceasefire and a durable political settlement to have a chance at rebuilding the shattered economy. By numbers, Yemen is suffering from the largest food crisis in the world. According to the UN, an estimated seventeen million persons, 60 per cent of the population and three million more than were so afflicted at the start of the year, are food insecure and require urgent humanitarian assistance to save lives. Seven of the country’s 22 governorates are at a phase four emergency food insecurity level, one step away from phase five: famine.
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