Table of Contents The Master of Disaster It has an all-star cast The practical effects still hold up The stakes keep getting higher But five decades later, this film isn’t readily available to ...

"Fire, flood or any other act of God." So, anyway, it says on the insurance policy. But the crises in 1970s disaster movies were almost always caused by Man. Or if not directly caused, then aided ...

Throughout the 1970s, audiences couldn't get enough of disaster movies. The decade began with the all-star blockbuster bomb-on-a-plane thrill ride Airport, based on Arthur Hailey's best-seller.

In the heat of Southern California’s most destructive fire season, Los Angeles residents were left watching helplessly as ...

Firefighters began reporting that they were running out of water barely two days into the crisis. “The hydrants are down,” came the grim report over the radio. “Water supply just dropped.” ...

The LA fireball is the new normal—a new genre of urban fire that requires novel thinking and next-practice responses to ...

The situation prompted the Los Angeles Fire Department to take the rare step of putting out a plea for off-duty firefighters ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Multiple massive wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force early Wednesday, ...