A decorated Army veteran from South Dakota returns to New Orleans for the first time today since performing cleanup work ...

Up Call Hurricane Katrina, which struck in August 2005, remains one of the most devastating storms in US history. It caused ...

In the event of an emergency, the Sandwich Middle High Schools opens up to the public to offer shelter. Both people and pets ...

As the deadly LA wildfires and other major emergencies have shown, alerts rely on a complicated chain of communication ...

Rain and cooler temperatures will bring relief to Southern California this weekend, after a prolonged stretch of dry, breezy weather that allowed wildfires to thrive.

Two people were arrested on suspicion of dressing up as firefighters and trying to enter a Palisades fire evacuation zone in their own phony fire truck, authorities said Sunday. Patrolling ...

But neighborhoods in western Altadena did not see the same urgency, as evacuation orders didn ... were advancing extraordinarily fast under hurricane-force winds, limited nighttime visibility ...

“None of us got a red (mandatory evacuation) alert before we felt ready to leave our houses,” he told CNN Wednesday. “You know, we felt heat and fire and that trumps any alert. So a lot of ...

PAMELA. WELL, THOSE EVACUATION ORDERS WERE LIFTED BEFORE NOON. WE WERE CHATTING WITH NEIGHBORS, THE BUSINESS OWNERS WHO LIVE NEARBY. THEY SAY THEY COULD SMELL THE CHLORINE IN THE AIR. THIS ...

A fast-growing brush fire forced evacuation orders in the Los Angeles County community of Castaic on Wednesday, officials said. The blaze, which officials named the Hughes Fire, was first reported ...

Due to the fire's proximity to homes and businesses, evacuation orders and warnings were issued as firefighters battled the blaze on the ground and in the air. 3:15 p.m.: The San Diego County ...

All 17 people who died in the Eaton fire lived in an area where evacuation orders came hours later than others, even as homes nearby were already burning. Some people never received warnings at all.