CAL FIRE wrote on X on Friday: "California is under a heat wave, bringing hot, dry, and windy conditions, making wildfires more likely to occur and to spread fast. When temps soar, even a tiny spark ...

A brush fire in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles ignited and spread quickly Thursday, forcing thousands of evacuations ...

Our atmosphere's heat-trapping gases are like steroids for weather, supercharging wildfires and other severe events. Last ...

It’s no easy feat organizing a clean place for 1,000 firefighters to rest after a long day on the line. Here’s how it gets done.

The Gifford Fire response will swell to 3,000 people Wednesday morning, and incident commanders are setting up additional base camps to reduce drive time ...

As the Gifford Fire stretches into a second week, the most intense portion of the massive blaze is taking place in South San Luis Obispo County, near the rural community of Huasna.

Residents were forced from their homes in Southern California as raging wildfires exploded in size and threatened thousands of properties and other structures in the region.The Canyon Fire, which was ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles made good progress overnight in their battle ...

The possible intermittent full traffic stops in both directions of US 101, approximately two-miles north of the Santa Maria River ...

The map above shows Gifford’s evacuation area in red and the approximate fire perimeter as a black line. Shown as a gray tone ...

Starting Saturday, August 9, travelers on northbound US 101 will encounter a daily closure of the on and offramps at Santa ...

Gifford Fire officials held a community meeting in Sisquoc at Santa Barbara County Fire Station 23 on Thursday night. They ...