State and local officials were battling a wildfire Monday afternoon in Bastrop County as the region experiences elevated fire danger.

After four consecutive losses and 11 straight road defeats, the New York Giants fired head coach Brian Daboll, whose tenure ended with a 20-40-1 record.

A new wildfire was reported today at 12:30 p.m. in San Francisco County, California. Chamberlin Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the National Park Service for three hours. At present, details about the containment or cause of the fire are unknown.

Patrick Brady, a New York City firefighter, died of a "medical episode" while battling an "all-hands" fire in Brooklyn on Saturday, officials said.

A house fire in a neighborhood in the Denver metro area that broke out early Sunday morning has claimed the lives of two people, as well as their pet.

For Pacific Palisades, the focus has been on the failure to fully deploy firefighters on the morning of historic winds and the inability of firefighters to extinguish a Jan. 1 fire that later roared back to life as the Palisades fire.

The San Mateo County Coroner’s Office identified the two victims as Benigno Nuguid Pare, 56, and Anil Kumar Sharma, 25, according to a press release from the Redwood City Police Department. Authorities do not yet know why the two individuals were in the building at the time of the blaze.

HOUSTON — The Houston Fire Department rescued a man from a house fire in Houston's East End on Monday morning, and four people were transported to the hospital.