Flames roar near Burbank homes as wildfire prompts evacuation orders

Crews are fighting a brush fire in the Wildwood Canyon part of Burbank Saturday afternoon that has led to evacuation orders and warnings. The wildfire is close to multiple expensive homes close to Country Club Drive. Dubbed the Walnut Fire, the blaze was first reported before 3:10 p.m. in the 1500 block of E. Walnut Avenue closed to Harvard Road.  Footage of the area shows large flames rising from the hillside. “Evacuation orders are in place for DeBell Restaurant and Golf Course and Stough Canyon Nature Center, Burbank officials said in a post on X. “Hiking trails closed until further…

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10 Ways Small Businesses Can Use AI To Grow–And Even Hire More Workers

A quartet of witnesses testifying this week to the House Small Business Committee disputed the commonly-held belief that artificial intelligence will displace human workers and insisted that small businesses which use AI are likely to wind up having to hire more employees–because they’ll grow.Already, a majority of small businesses are…

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Ohio State’s Ryan Day Reveals Areas Of Concern After First Practice

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! At the start of his eighth season as Ohio State football head coach, Ryan Day is looking for his eighth consecutive top 10 finish, including No. 5 last season when the Buckeyes fell short of defending their 2024 national championship.With those high…

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GOP senator breaks with Trump over ‘woke’ Smithsonian history battle

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is splitting from the majority of Republicans on the GOP’s pushback against the Smithsonian Institution’s teaching of American history.The moderate Republican senator sent a letter to the Trump administration alongside Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., asking for more information…

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Inside one man’s crazy plan to create Broadway’s version of Woodstock in upstate New York — including a ‘Rent’ reunion

The Hutton Company Brick Works literally built New York brick by brick. For over a century, thousands of brickmakers mixed, molded, dried and baked the city’s most essential building blocks on a 100-acre site along the banks of the Hudson River, in the city of Kingston. Look inside the walls of the Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal, the Cloisters and many other New York landmarks, and you will find a brick bearing the Hutton stamp. The kilns went cold in 1980, and the yards sat in ruins for decades. But when Broadway enthusiast Joshua Saltman first saw the old…

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