Balloon release Turlock, California
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8WqH3u2/

75% solo control today, including solo take off 😁

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, CA. 52nd Street and Western Avenue, before the sun was up on August 15.

She was alone in her car. Two men were in the one she hit. After the impact, one car was burning and the other was inside a building. Both drivers are in the hospital. The man took the worst of it in his leg and wrist. One more person went in with smaller injuries. The scanner called a possible DUI on her.

If she was drinking, this is how a morning drive puts three people in a hospital and a car through a wall.

A massive billboard collapsed onto a road outside Mexico City on Aug. 14, killing a passenger inside a vehicle. Video captured the structure falling from the side of a shopping mall that was under construction.

A Japanese F-15J made an emergency landing at Okinawa’s Naha Airport after a landing gear failure, skidding on its left wing and spinning before stopping. The pilot was uninjured.

Huge fire erupts in Surrey Quays, south London, sending smoke across the skyline

Three people were injured in a 4.7-magnitude earthquake that struck the Spanish province of Granada, according to ABC News.

🚨DEVELOPING: The Mukluk Fire, which was reported shortly before noon on Monday in the backyard of a home on the Alaska Highway, has grown to about 4.5 miles and is still spreading.

The Mukluk Fire (#487) is estimated at approximately 3,000 acres as additional firefighters and equipment continue to arrive in Tok.

❗️Level 3 GO! evacuations remain in place north of the Alaska Highway from Mackenzie Trail to East 5th Street, including Red Fox Drive.

The public should stay out of the fire area and evacuation zone due to ongoing firefighting activity and dangerous conditions.

More: https://fm.kuac.org/2026-08-17/fast-moving-wildfire-prompts-evacuations-in-tok

A powdery substance found in a letter at LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles was determined to pose no threat, police said. An officer reportedly discovered the substance in mail from the department’s mailroom just before 7 a.m. Tuesday. L.A. City firefighters and a hazmat team responded to the building, which was not evacuated.

Tennessee Troopers are working a very serious crash on I-65 at the 50-mile marker. Multiple commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) are involved, and one of the CMVs is on fire. Please seek alternative routes and avoid the area if possible.

https://x.com/i/status/2089814079636422999

Cherry Peak Fire burning northeast of Plains
https://www.kpax.com/news/cherry-peak-fire-burning-northeast-of-plains

Slaughter Fire burns 30 acres in Carlsbad Caverns
https://www.koat.com/article/slaughter-fire-burns-30-acres-in-carlsbad-caverns/73468351