The ongoing California fires devastating Los Angeles County and surrounding areas highlight the growing risks posed by climate change, droughts, and expanding residential developments in fire ...

As wildfires rage across Los Angeles, shrouding neighborhoods in smoke and threatening homes and lives, the urgency of addressing wildfire risks has never been clearer. Wildfires are an escalating ...

A California utility said Thursday that its equipment likely sparked a wildfire in Los Angeles that broke out the same day as two massive blazes in the area killed at least 29 people and destroyed ...

Jan. 13, 2025 Last month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency opened disaster recovery centers in Los Angeles County to provide in-person assistance to wildfire victims who had questions about ...

The month of January isn’t typically when to expect wildfires in California. Historically, wildfire season occurs between June and September, when the hills and brush scattered around the state ...

Evangeline Iglesias says the utility, Southern California Edison, failed to shut down its power equipment despite strong warnings, resulting in the Eaton wildfire that consumed her Altadena house ...

Alberta wildfire crews have already begun to perform prescribed burns around the province, ahead of the 2025 forest fire season. Starting on Jan. 6, 8,000 hectares around Ribbon Creek in ...

Wildfire smoke contains a "complex mixture" of fine particles that can pose hazards after just short-term exposure, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Known as PM2.5 ...

A man watches the flames from the Palisades Fire burning homes on the Pacific Coast Highway amid a powerful windstorm on Jan. 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, Calif. Apu Gomes / Getty Images ...

THE EATON FIRE IS JUST OVER 14,000 ACRES, AND THIS ONE IS BURNING IN ALTADENA. CREWS HAVE IT AT 15% CONTAINED AT THIS POINT, AND OFFICIALS ARE REMINDING PEOPLE THAT THE WATER IN EVACUATION ZONES ...

Wildfire smoke causes particularly dangerous air quality, especially for sensitive groups that include children and pregnant people. The multiple fires that broke out last week led L.A. County to ...

That figure is down from seven at one point last week, when powerful winds that contributed to fire conditions described by firefighters as the worst they've seen fanned flames in Los Angeles County.