Large-scale fire events are on the rise, from the flames that raged for days across LA, to the widespread devastation seen in ...

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Thursday that would create a new Wildfire Intelligence Agency, seeking ...

Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human ...

Extreme weather conditions will be more common, according to the study, adding fresh urgency to a burgeoning group of climate ...

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland urban interface or ...

Cal Fire and local agencies are investigating several recent fires in the region, including the Border 2 Fire that has burned over 6,600 acres.

What played out in L.A. could easily occur in other communities, other cities across the West and even outside the West,” said Kimiko Barrett, the senior wildfire researcher at Montana-based ...

The L.A. area fires that have destroyed homes have also burned through thousands of acres of wildland that’s home ... For the area hardest hit by the Eaton Fire: Pasadena Humane: 626-344-1129 ...

Fire crews are making progress on blunting the threat from an enormous new blaze north of Los Angeles that forced students to evacuate and prompted inmates to shelter in place. The Hughes Fire has ...

While firebreaks between the urban-wildland interface are unlikely to stop a wildfire, particularly in high winds in which embers will blow across the break, they dampen the fire’s progress ...

“If we’re cutting any positions, that’s a bad thing,” Alonzo said. “I mean, just to support the wildland fire efforts ...we need as many hands on deck as we can get right now.