With increasingly hot weather and topographical features that resemble those in parts of Southern California, the booming ...

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone ...

Dozens of people are believed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have burned down whole swaths of ...

We are severely understaffed,” said Jerry May, president of San Jose Firefighters Local 230 Union and a San Jose Fire ...

In the Bay Area, two of the largest city fire departments are stretched, raising questions about their ability to protect ...

The Los Angeles Fire Department has less than one firefighter for every 1,000 residents, with a staffing rate of 0.90, a Bay ...

Pacific Coast Highway west of Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles County was closed around 4:30 p.m. Sunday due to ...

Residents in the Pasadena and Altadena areas have been preparing for the risk of mudslides ahead of the rain. Brittany Hope ...

Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley asked for full-time employees to augment a mostly volunteer brush-clearing crew two years ago.

For local agencies, the disaster in Southern California has prompted renewed attention to issues such as storage, flow ...