Wildfires in the Los Angeles area have burned tens of thousands of acres, damaged or destroyed thousands of structures and forced people to evacuate across the region. The day after the Palisades ...

After flames leveled nearly 500 homes in Bel-Air and Brentwood in 1961, Los Angeles had a reckoning over firefighting. By 1964, city leaders had added 13 fire stations, mapped out fire hydrants ...

As the sun began to set over Castaic Lake on Wednesday, the hills to the north and east were engulfed in flames, casting an eerie orange glow across the valley below. The Hughes fire ignited ...

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At night, he said, pilots are outfitted with night vision goggles. From the air, they communicate the position of the flames to firefighters on the ground and spray water or retardant substances ...

If it’s in an area that was populated, you may have eyewitness accounts of a driver who saw some flames or smoke alongside the road. You may have surveillance cameras or traffic cameras on highways.

A number of North Huntingdon’s seven fire departments worked Wednesday night to douse the flames that ripped through a home along the township’s Otis Drive. Firefighters were dispatched to the ...

Fire danger remains high in parts of Los Angeles that have been ablaze for days, but there is hope that better weather over the weekend will give firefighters battling the flames some much-needed ...

While firefighters' jackets can shield them from the worst of the flames, sustained exposure to intense heat and humidity can lead to serious illness and injury. This is why there are specialized ...

That happens when crews have made a fire line around some part of it, such as a dirt trail dug by shovels or bulldozers that stops flames from reaching more grass or trees, according to the U.S ...