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

LA Times As flames exploded from the parched hillsides of Eaton Canyon on Jan. 7, fire agencies faced a crisis far beyond their worst reckoning. In just a few hours, hurricane-force winds would stoke ...

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 ...

The couple frantically decided to flee their home, yet it would be at least another hour before emergency management ...

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.

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 ...

began shortly after 6 p.m. Jan. 7 and the first evacuation warnings went into place for the east side of Lake Avenue within two hours. Hurricane-force gusts spread the fire quickly from the ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KABC) -- Evacuation orders that were issued have expanded due to a growing vegetation fire that broke out in the Bonsall area of San Diego County Tuesday morning. As of 11:30 a ...