Two months before California's main wildfire season is due to start, emergency services are struggling to cope with blazes in the north of the state, which has been turned into a fiery wasteland.... In Grizzly Flats, a town east of Sacramento, police worked hard to evacuate residents in the night as the Caldor Fire swept in. Terrified Linda Blalock said she was woken by officers yelling" Fire's here!... " She headed to a shelter with her daughter, their cat, two dogs and a chicken with the fir

A Ukrainian woman who fled Kyiv on the day Russia invaded said she is “ very excited ” to be launching her own hairdressing business in south-east London. Since February 27, Elena Lishchun has been staying with her daughter, Anna Walker, who has lived in the UK for seven years and helped find Ms Lishchun a place to work near her home in Greenwich.Ms Lishchun, 56, has worked as a hairdresser her “ whole life ” in Ukraine and said she feels “ lucky ” to be able to rent a chair at Headcase Barbers