The Auto Fire has burned nearly 61 acres in Ventura, California, a coastal city about 68 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, according to the county fire department. The blaze has was first ...

January 10, 2025 11:06 PM Published January 10, 2025 10:01 PM A fire broke out in the vegetation near Interstate 10 in Palm Desert on Friday around 7:00 p.m.

Jan. 10, 2025 One of his neighbors also smelled the smoke, he later learned. “The timing of this was about an hour before the fire,” he said. “Now, what that all means, I don’t know.

On Jan.10, winds shifted to push the fire through the Santa Monica Mountains to threaten the communities of Brentwood and Encino. Crews were battling the blaze from the air and the ground.

The combination of drought-like conditions — Southern California has had less than 10% of average rainfall since Oct. 1 — and powerful offshore winds that hit the region Tuesday prompted fire ...

The Palisades Fire started at 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 7 southeast of Palisades Drive, Cal Fire said. Along with the Palisades Fire, multiple other wildfires across Southern California have forced ...

Monday, 8:10 a.m. PSTLos Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said 23 people have been reported missing as a result of the fires—17 near the Eaton Fire and six near the Palisades Fire—and LAPD ...

Democratic lawmakers are claiming the severity of the Los Angeles wildfires was a result of climate change, despite reports that the city's fire hydrants ran out of water and the fire department's ...

The Hurst fire, which was reported Tuesday at 10:59 pm, began near Diamond Road in Sylmar, has scorched 799 acres and is 76% contained, according to Cal Fire. As California fire officials are ...

Here’s what they mean. Fire watches and warnings are issued by the 122 local National Weather Service forecast offices across the United States. Forecast offices maintain criteria specific to ...

Progress on the fire had been "significantly slowed" by 10:50 p.m. local time on Monday, Andrew Dowd, a spokesperson for the Ventura County Fire Department, told the Ventura County Star.

On Monday, elite federal fire investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrived in Los Angeles to probe the cause of the blaze. Since it began around 10:30am ...