Bryson Fire spreads rapidly in Malibu hills, prompting new evacuations

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The Bryson Fire continues to blaze through Malibu hills, burning about 200 acres with only 5% containment and prompting additional evacuations and road closures.

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The fast‑moving fire threatens homes and displaces residents, highlighting the ongoing wildfire risk in wind‑prone Southern California.

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Oct 5 Rainy week ahead for Tampa Bay as cold front stalls and Gulf system develops
Oct 7 The National Hurricane Center now expects Isaias to intensify into a hurricane before Gulf Coast landfall.
Oct 8 The National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch from Bay St. Louis to Indian Pass and a hurricane warning for the Alabama coast.
Oct 8 Tropical Storm Rachel is moving toward northern Baja and the Gulf of California, while Hurricane Simon is expected to become a major hurricane on Mexico’s west coast, and Hurricane Isaias is strengthening in the Atlantic toward the US Gulf.
Oct 9 Waves from former Hurricane Rachel ripped apart the Long Beach Peninsula boardwalk, leaving a vacant home on the verge of falling into the sea.
Oct 9 Hurricane Isaias, a Category 3 storm, battered the Gulf Coast with strong winds, heavy rain and tornado risk, while officials kept the Alabama-Georgia football game on schedule.
Oct 10 Mobile, Alabama imposed a curfew as the storm approached.
Oct 10 Isaias has weakened to a post‑tropical cyclone and is now moving northward inland.
Oct 11 Updated outage figures show Florida power losses falling to about 323,000 and Alabama outages exceeding 80,000.
Oct 12 City crews began reinforcing the boardwalk’s timber bulkhead while distributing additional sandbags.
Oct 12 Simon turned northwest, keeping its eye off the coast of Jalisco.
Oct 13 Around 14,000 federal and state responders were deployed to assist flood‑affected communities.
Oct 15 A fast-moving wildfire dubbed the Peak Fire burned about 22 acres near Azusa, prompting evacuation orders and warnings as red-flag conditions persist.
Oct 17 The incident has shifted from the earlier Azusa Peak Fire to the larger Norte Fire affecting Orange County.

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Updated 17 Oct 2026, 03:49 UTC