NTA Video Stories

San Juan Capistrano, California – A wall of flames crested a ridge above a San Juan Capistrano neighborhood as the Norte Fire pushed thick black smoke over homes on October 16, 2026. X user Kaz filmed the scene from their living room and shared it that afternoon. The video shows a long line of orange flames burning along the hilltops and dipping into a ravine. A dense column of dark smoke rises ab...

San Clemente, California – A timelapse showed thick smoke from the Norte Fire pouring off the hills above southern Orange County neighborhoods and spreading across the sky. X user Air Reel Productions filmed the scene from high ground above rows of homes and shared it on October 16, 2026. The video starts with a dense column of dark brown smoke rising from the hills, with a smaller white plume bes...

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii – Lava poured from Kīlauea’s summit overnight as low-level activity returned to the volcano’s ongoing eruption. The video was filmed just before 2 a.m. on October 16, 2026. During the night, the south vent inside Halemaʻumaʻu crater produced numerous lava flows. The activity continued into Friday morning and appeared to be ongoing. The summit area...

Eatonville, Washington – Two rescued grizzly bears shared a gentle moment in the water at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park. The video shows a light-brown bear standing in a shallow, muddy pool next to a large rock. A darker bear lies on its side in the water in front of it. The lighter bear steps forward and splashes the water, and the darker bear playfully raises a front paw toward it. The two then l...

Lake Havasu City, Arizona – Muddy water rushed across a road at Lake Havasu State Park after weekend rain filled the normally dry desert washes. The video shows brown, foamy water flowing quickly over a dip in the paved road. A yellow depth gauge beside the crossing shows the water at the one-foot mark. On the far side, a white pickup truck waits with its headlights on. Twigs, branches and other d...

Malibu, California – A wide plume of smoke from the Bryson Fire rose behind the hills above Malibu as strong winds whipped palm trees along Pacific Coast Highway. X user Dilara Esengil filmed the scene from a moving car near Trancas and Encinal Canyon on the evening of October 15, 2026. The video shows brownish-grey smoke spreading across a clear sky in the low golden light. No flames are visible....

Caribou, Maine – Snow fell overnight at the National Weather Service office in Caribou, and someone wrote “1ST SNOW” in the slush on a car hood. The nighttime video shows large flakes blowing sideways under a bright parking lot light. A thin layer of wet snow covers the hood and windshield of a dark vehicle. Snow also sits on the roof and rear window of an SUV parked next to it. The ca...

San Francisco, California – A US Air Force F-22 Raptor shot flares into the sky over San Francisco Bay during the city’s Fleet Week Air Show. The video shows the stealth fighter climbing straight up and releasing fan-shaped bursts of flares. In other shots it loops and leaves corkscrew trails of white smoke. At one point it flips at the top of a climb and sends flares out in several directio...

New York, New York – Four neighboring townhouses on a single Manhattan block have been transformed into a Halloween spectacle, with giant spiders, armies of skeletons and towering monsters covering their facades. X user NYC Photographer filmed the houses on East 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues on the Upper East Side, posting the video on October 15. One house is crawling with huge...

Malibu, California – Smoke from the fast-growing Bryson Fire rose over the hills of Malibu at sunset on October 15 as the brush fire forced evacuations in the area. X user Bob Dobbs filmed the plume from the side of a busy road, with traffic passing and palm-lined hills nearby. The smoke spreads low across the horizon under an orange evening sky. “Fire starting in Malibu?” the filmer w...

Mascoutah, Illinois – The U.S. Navy’s MQ-25A Stingray unmanned refueling aircraft retracted its landing gear automatically for the first time during a test flight over Illinois. Footage released by the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation program office shows the carrier-based drone tanker in flight over MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah on October 6. According to the Navy, the Sti...

Fontana, California – Firefighters battled a wind-whipped blaze in a huge pile of scrap metal at a recycling yard in Southern California as Santa Ana winds pushed thick smoke toward neighboring businesses. Footage released by the San Bernardino County Fire Department on October 14 shows flames burning at the base of the towering pile of twisted metal on Slover Avenue. Strong winds blow heavy gray...

Gaza Strip – Israeli forces said they sealed and destroyed an underground tunnel route about 1.5 kilometers long that crossed the so-called yellow line in southern Gaza. Footage released by the Israel Defense Forces on October 15 takes viewers through the narrow passage, lined with curved concrete arches and flat wall panels over a sandy floor. A wire runs along one wall, sections of the lining ar...

Carencro, Louisiana – A Louisiana sheriff’s deputy waded neck-deep into a pond in his full uniform to rescue an 8-year-old nonspeaking girl with autism who had gone underwater. Bodycam footage from the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office captures the rescue on Blushing Groom Drive in unincorporated Carencro. According to the sheriff’s office, deputies were called on Sunday, Septemb...

Vienna, Austria – Female northern rockhopper penguins at Vienna’s Schönbrunn Zoo spend more time sitting on the eggs, while males focus on building the nest and often steal material from the neighbors to do it, a new study has found. The research by Schönbrunn Zoo and the University of Vienna, presented by the zoo in mid-October, is the first detailed look at how this species breeds in human...

San Antonio, Texas – Sheriff’s deputies in Texas rounded up two horses and a donkey that were wandering loose beside Interstate 35, leading them to safety on ropes. Footage released by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office shows the animals grazing on a grassy embankment as trucks pass on the highway. Deputies were called at about 5:45 p.m. on October 11 to the south side of the county, ne...

Istanbul, Turkey – Rescuers carried a young child and a woman through knee-deep floodwater to a waiting fire truck after a school van was stranded on a flooded road in Istanbul. Footage released by Turkey’s General Directorate of Forestry on October 14 was filmed from the cab of one of its fire trucks as heavy rain pounded the city. It shows a rescuer wading through the brown water carrying...

Auberry, California – An air tanker dropped a long line of bright red fire retardant along the edge of the Horse Fire as it burned through dry foothills in Fresno County. The fire broke out at about 1 p.m. on October 13 on Powerhouse Road near Auberry. Footage released by CAL FIRE/Fresno County Fire that day was filmed from a second aircraft flying above the tanker. It shows the plane sweeping low...

San Alberto, Colombia – A police officer waded chest-deep into a fast-rising river in northern Colombia to rescue a 26-year-old woman who was being carried away by the current. Footage released by Colombia’s National Police on October 14 shows the swollen, muddy river rushing through San Alberto in Cesar department. According to police, the woman fell into the water during a sudden rise in t...

Castle Rock, Colorado – A Douglas County deputy ended a wrong-way chase on Interstate 25 by spinning the speeding SUV into a concrete barrier, according to the sheriff’s office. Footage released by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office shows the early hours of October 13, when deputies were called at about 4:45 a.m. to reports of a driver going the wrong way. The sheriff’s office s...

Sonoma County, California – A sheriff’s helicopter crew lifted an injured hiker out of a steep ravine off Cavedale Road, flying the patient to a waiting ambulance on a long line. Footage released by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office on October 14 shows the rescue largely from the helmet camera of a tactical flight officer from the helicopter Henry-1. According to the sheriff’s o...

Chełm, Poland – Air-raid sirens woke residents of this eastern Polish city near the Ukrainian border in the early hours of October 16 as Russia launched an air attack on Ukraine. X user Veyro recorded the warning in the dark at about 1:01 a.m. “This is the wake-up we had in Chełm today,” the filmer wrote. Poland’s Government Centre for Security issued alerts overnight warning of...

Manhattan, New York – A driver was hauled through the window of his burning SUV by police officers and a passerby after a wrong-way crash on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Washington Heights. Footage released by the New York City Police Department shows the incident at about 1:34 a.m. on October 6. The NYPD said a good Samaritan alerted officers from the 33rd Precinct to the crash, and they raced to...

Sarasota County, Florida – A U.S. Coast Guard crew pulled a crab pot line from around the neck of a struggling loggerhead sea turtle about a mile offshore between Venice Inlet and Big Sarasota Pass on Sunday, October 11. Footage released by U.S. Coast Guard Southeast shows crew members from Coast Guard Station Cortez using a boat hook to grab the black line and its pink float, drawing the turtle t...

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina – Police officers kicked down an apartment door early Tuesday morning, October 13, after hearing a woman screaming for help inside. Body camera footage released by the Mount Pleasant Police Department shows officers forcing their way into the apartment on Anna Knapp Boulevard and pulling a man off the woman as she cries out, “Oh, get him!” The suspect tel...