Southern California Edison says it's possible a dead power circuit could have played a role in igniting the fire in Altadena.

The wiring itself isn’t the problem, because aluminum does conduct electricity safely. The trouble comes at the connections.

The 2018 Camp Fire in the Northern California town of Paradise, which killed dozens of people, was caused by electrical transmission lines owned and operated by Pacific Gas & Electric, state ...

On Oct. 28, about a week before Election Day, a ballot box in Portland, Oregon, and one in neighboring Vancouver, Washington state, were set on fire in what officials decried as an attack on ...

As the fires ravaging Pacific Palisades expanded and started moving toward his home in the Malibu Hills last week, Brent Woodworth connected two 100-foot hoses to his personal fire hydrant and put ...

having fire-rated walls , tempered glass windows, metal roof, building envelope fully insulated with no vents so heat and smoke didn’t get into the attic, and a concrete perimeter. The home also ...

The agency gave more details on the devices used to set fire to two ballot boxes in Vancouver, Washington and one in Portland, Oregon, in October. Doug Olson, Special Agent in Charge of the ...

The Eaton and Palisades fires are the first and second-most destructive in Southern California history. “The Palisades fire alone is the size of Manhattan; just imagine the debris,” McIlreavy ...

Los Angeles fire bosses deployed just a fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five of the 40 available fire ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An electrical malfunction is blamed for a three-alarm apartment fire Wednesday morning that injured three Shawnee firefighters and one resident. The problem happened the ...

He said the landscaping and the home’s distance from other structures were “the first line of defense,” while the second line was the home’s tempered glass and fire-rated walls.