Homeowners are buying and installing private fire hydrant systems to help protect their homes during wildfires.

While investigators are still working to determine the official cause, attorney Jay Edelson alleges this real-time video is the strongest evidence yet, that suggests the Eaton Fire started at an SCE transmission tower.

Reconstructing fire-ravaged neighborhoods in their former image could make residents sitting ducks for future blazes, experts say.

Under a red flag warning, any fires that do start are more likely to spread at a rapid rate behind strong winds. Flying embers also speed a brush fire's spread. Powerful gusts can cast hot embers for miles, starting spot fires ahead of the main fire line in a nightmare scenario for firefighters.

The increased frequency and size of conflagrations like those burning in LA threaten even species that evolved with wildfires, including the region’s struggling mountain lions.

An economist's harrowing escape from fire, and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

As of late last week, investigations were under way into whether equipment owned and operated by Southern California Edison, the utility subsidiary of

By Bobby Bascomb The ongoing Los Angeles fires have burned more than 16,000 structures, many of them full of synthetic materials that, when burned, release chemicals toxic to both humans and wildlife.

Local leaders are upset about the potential dangers posed to residents by the EPA's plan to open a site to process Eaton fire debris near Lario Park.

It was there that I burnt my wrists under hot plates of chilaquiles waitressing at the Omelette Express and stood with my head bowed at Temple Shomrei Torah every year during Yom-Kippur, echoing the refrain of atonement: who by fire and who by flood, never thinking our changing climate would make such a question legitimate.

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted the second week of January and roared across the Los Angeles area.