Fire weather” is a term increasingly used to describe the atmospheric conditions that have rendered California’s recent wildfires uncontrollable. This emerging pattern combines hot, dry air that ...

In a state that averages more than 7,500 wildfires a year some California homeowners keep helmets and fire hoses handy. However, the Los Angeles fires demonstrate a new reality: Wildfires in the state ...

Fire investigators are looking at a hiking area called Skull Rock as the potential point of origin for the destructive ...

Nearly 90,000 households lost electricity as utilities shut off power to prevent their lines from sparking new blazes.

On arrival in 1542 to what was later to become Los Angeles, the Spanish explorer Juan Cabrillo saw smoke rising from ...

Firefighters are working around the clock to contain the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire. Thousands of people were forced to ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC ... fueled by severe drought conditions and strong Santa Ana winds, continue burning in Southern California. The Palisades Fire, burning in the Pacific Palisades, and the ...

The first evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire didn't come until about 40 minutes after some of those homes were already burning, ...

At least 24 people are believed to be dead and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted for as multiple wildfires, fueled ...