The Santa Monica police were in tactical mode — every officer worked 12 hours on and 12 hours off. Police and fire fighters worked around the clock, not only trying to stifle the growing conflagration ...

Praises to our San Diego fire department for making short work of the Gilman fire. If it had reached the UCSD campus with ...

Police and fire fighters worked around the clock, not only trying to stifle the growing conflagration but keeping watch for potential looters. I spotted one man with a hammer and a flashlight look ...

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Now that the inevitable chicken has come home to roost, state policy continues to fail the firefighters charged with putting out the conflagration. California has not constructed a new major ...

As of this writing, the collective destruction has killed two people and destroyed more than 1,000 buildings, including community fixtures, houses, schools, libraries, shops, and restaurants. With ...

Red flag warnings are in effect until Thursday for parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego because of low humidity and relentless Santa Ana winds.

I am still processing what just happened in Los Angeles. Not a wildfire. More of a conflagration. Humidity under 10% — winds gusting to 80 mph — 0.16 inches of rain in the last eight months ...

Rising winds threaten to spread the conflagration to suburban neighborhoods. Residents nearby were ordered to evacuate or warned to be ready to leave quickly ahead of the fire. The blaze ...

With fears of a regional conflagration spiraling, the Kenyan presidency announced on Monday that Congolese President Felix ...