• Warnings for days: The immediate causes of the fires were not clear yet, but officials had been cautioning for days that ...

Why did water hydrants run dry in the midst of a conflagration? City officials stressed that the shortage was due to low ...

The department said hot coffee was used as a quick substitute for de-icer to thaw out frozen equipment until the real thing ...

For five consecutive days, wildfires fanned by strong winds have ravaged neighborhoods in Los Angeles, destroying more than ...

Outrage over the handling of the devastating Los Angeles fires is heating up amid reports that city leaders failed to prepare ...

Firefighters have taken the rare but not unusual move of scooping up ocean water to help battle the flames as wildfires rage ...

Sea water, in theory, could be used to help a fire. But, its salty components can do more harm than good, which is why ...

Air quality regulators have also thrown obstacles in the way of prescribed burns, a fire mitigation practice that once was routinely used to reduce the fuel for wildfires and create defensible spaces ...

"I looked out, and there was this silhouette of a person just standing there under the streetlight, shrouded by fog." ...

The Rose Bowl, though, is currently serving as an emergency response center for Pasadena Police and Fire, as well as a ...

In order to reach remote fires in the State Responsibility Area, CAL FIRE maintains a fleet of firefighting aircraft, many of ...

A machine shed, several tractors, equipment, and some round bales were all destroyed in a fire fought by two Minnesota and ...