A years-old video showing South African firefighters singing and dancing at an airport depicts the group after arriving in Canada to fight wildfires there in 2023, not heading to Los Angeles in ...

Crews of some 8,500 firefighters are ... is typical for California. Los Angeles International Airport received twice its normal rainfall during the winter of 2022-2023, and nearly as much ...

As deadly wildfires raged in Los Angeles in January 2025, a video (archived) circulated online claiming to show South African firefighters landing in Canada on their way to assist in firefighting ...