The city of Malibu is seeking to arrest homeless people over the fire risk they pose with illegal encampments, in a clash with Los Angeles County. Malibu was hit hard by the Palisades fire earlier ...

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A fire broke out at a Chevron oil refinery just outside Los Angeles on Thursday night, sending towering flames into the air that were visible for miles.Officials in El Segundo, California, urged ...

Rekindled blazes are raising questions about whether agencies need to rethink how they ensure fires are truly extinguished.

The brother of a firefighter engineer who was shot to death by a colleague at the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Agua Dulce station in 2021 has reached a settlement in a lawsuit originally filed ...