"It's a nightmare. My soul and my heart ache. Everything is gone. Houses, schools, churches, banks. Everything," Teresa García, who is originally from Poncitlán, Jalisco, a small town in Central Mexico,

Families of color, making up over half of Altadena, have bought homes and kept them for generations. The Black homeownership rate exceeds 80%, almost double the national rate.

Yet in L.A., prisoners themselves are bringing hope to the community. The state of California has for more than a century operated a volunteer Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, which allows eligible incarcerated persons to support local, state and federal agencies in responding to a variety of emergencies, including fires.

Gavin Newsom said firefighters from Mexico were en route to help fight the Eaton Fire. The Eaton Fire is one of several still burning and devastating the Los Angeles area. The fire was first reported Tuesday,

These photos chronicle the catastrophic scale of destruction from wildfires in California that started on January 7.

LOS ANGELES -- A humanitarian team from Mexico, deployed to fight the fires burning in Southern California ... would fight the Eaton Fire in Altadena, but because the Palisades Fire is continuing ...

As climate change warms the planet, wildfires have become so unpredictable and extreme that new words were invented: firenado, gigafire, fire siege — even fire pandemic. California has 78 more annual “fire days” — when conditions are ripe for fires to spark — than 50 years ago.

Coverage of the Eaton and Palisades fires, including stories about the unprecedented losses, issues firefighters faced and the winds.

Fanned by strong winds, the wildfires have killed at least 24 people and swept through 40,000 acres in the Greater Los Angeles area.

We continue our coverage of the devastating wildfires in Southern California, which have killed at least 24 people as of Monday. Some 150,000 more have been forced to evacuate their homes and over 40,

Los Angeles is reeling from the most destructive wildfires in its history, and firefighters are struggling to contain the devastating blaze.

Firefighters braced for high winds, with the National Weather Service of LA issuing its most serious advisory, “Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS)".