The recent LA fires drove home how dangerous wildfires can be when they encroach on urban areas. So-called 'wildland-urban interface' fires are on the rise. However, building codes and standards have ...

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You might wonder why a regular fire extinguisher, the kind you might have in your home or workplace, can't handle lithium-ion battery fires. SafeQuip, a leading distributor of fire-related equipment, ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

A new wildfire erupted north of Los Angeles on Wednesday, exploding in size and forcing tens of thousands ... in just a few hours. The fire was being fanned by strong, dry Santa Ana winds that ...

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Monterey County supervisors on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in response to last week's major fire at the Vistra ... site is actually an example of different ways to design it," Mulvaney ...

Firefighters responded Wednesday to a brush fire on a mountainside in Rancho Bernardo that threatened homes and injured one person, according to San Diego Fire-Rescue. The so-called Center Fire ...

About 15 miles away from Chancellor's location in the Grapevine section of the freeway, the Hughes Fire was well underway in what witnesses described as an apocalyptic scene in the Castaic area ...

Istanbul, Turkey — A fire engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 people and injuring at least 51 more, the interior minister said. Witnesses said ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday near Castaic Lake, growing to more than 10,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations. Around ...

FORECAST COMING UP NEXT. LAURA, A FAMILY OF FOUR DIES IN AN EARLY APARTMENT FIRE, INCLUDING TWO CHILDREN. A MASSIVE FIRE ENGULFED THIS BUILDING AT INDY RIDGE APARTMENTS IN INDEPENDENCE.