The most effective measures to prepare for wildfires, Villanueva said, is by creating a “defensible space” around homes. He ...

The Madre Fire has more than doubled the size of California’s second-largest wildfire this year, as it races through the Los ...

The warning, delivered at the county fire headquarters in East Los Angeles on Friday, serves as a stark reminder of how ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department is expected to pre-deploy resources and personnel to address potential emergencies this ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department is expected to pre-deploy resources and personnel to address potential emergencies this ...

Since 1993, seven of the 10 worst fire years in California, ranked by total acres burned, have occurred after ...

Southern California has experienced below-average precipitation this year, less than 70% of the typical average in most areas ...

A fast-moving California wildfire exploded to become the state’s biggest of the year, forcing evacuations and the closure of ...

Seven months after the Mountain Fire, the Ventura County District Attorney's Office is reviewing an investigation into its cause.

Just after 10:30 a.m. on a cool, foggy January morning, smoke began rising from a ridge above Pacific Palisades — a quiet ...

For the past three days, firefighters in Riverside County, California, and elsewhere have been working nonstop to tame the wildfires.

The offshore air currents, known as Santa Ana winds in Southern California and Diablo winds in the San Francisco Bay Area, have been blamed in the past for knocking down power lines and igniting ...