"“Our crews were trying desperately to get up to the third floor, couldn’t do it,” Independence Fire Chief Jimmy Walker said.

The people whose houses were spared in the L.A. fires are grappling with a flood of mixed emotions: Their homes are still ...

Many of these structures or sites were so well built — think Machu Picchu in Peru or the Colosseum in Italy — that they have survived ... The Empire State Building was the first building with over 100 ...