Four people including a Manville woman, 75, an East Newark man, 52, and two men in the 20s are dead after two crashes in Franklin (Somerset) and Manville.
Record heat is fueling dangerous fires across California, pushing firefighters to the limit and creating ideal conditions for more blazes to spark and spread.
A section of a major SoCal freeway was shut down and homes were under evacuation orders Friday as a chemical reaction inside a railroad tank car threatened to cause an explosion.