From 40 school districts in Sonoma County to 88 cities in Los Angeles County, California likes local control — even if they ...

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When fire victims return to find nothing but charred wreckage, many assume their irreplaceable belongings perished. Jeff Levy ...

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When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

Officials across the Los Angeles area had plenty of warning that a deadly confluence of wind and drought was coming. A bad fire was likely. Did they do enough to get ready?

Southern California's Palisades and Eaton fires reach 100 percent containment, with 29 dead and over 16,000 structures destroyed.

Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m. PST Cal Fire data marked the Palisades Fire at 68% containment and the Eaton Fire at 91% containment, ...

The 2 wildfires killed 29 people, destroyed upwards of 16,000 structures and burned more than 37,000 acres, officials say.

Learning from Silence," a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

With thousands of lives at risk, a mobile command post tasked with issuing evacuation orders struggled to keep pace with the ...

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires — which devastated neighborhoods across Los Angeles County, including Pacific Palisades, ...