Three Killeen firefighters return home today after a two-week deployment to Los Angeles County, where they helped battle wildfires that displaced 200,000 people.

Two cargo planes landed on the Texas Jet tarmac in Fort Worth on Sunday afternoon packed with four-legged evacuees from Southern California. The 161 dogs and 15 cats inside had been through multiple disasters.

The number of deaths from the wildfires that destroyed entire communities in the Los Angeles area this month has risen to 29, the county medical examiner’s office said Monday.

Temple residents are stepping up to support those displaced by the devastating Hughes Fire in Los Angeles County.

The death toll from the wildfires plaguing the Los Angeles area in the United States has risen to 29. The coroner’s office announced on Monday evening that one person died in hospital over the weekend as a result of the “Palisades’’ fire on the western edge of Los Angeles.