Palisades fire victims are suing LADWP, claiming downed power lines caused a second ignition — and the utility tried to hide ...

Cities with first-time fire zone designations include Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, ...

The new fire hazard severity zone map shows which California neighborhoods are considered “very high” zones. Conan Nolan ...

All told, the size of orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size of ...

The maps are part of a 40-year-old program in which the state Forestry and Fire Protection Department ... in Pacific Palisades, CA, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. The wind-whipped fire destroyed ...

The legal settlement allows developers to build 2,750 single homes in a smaller area than they originally proposed in ...

California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Cal Fire ... surrounded by dense forest or occupying a known wind tunnel is more likely to skew yellow, orange and red, no matter ...

Cal Fire's new maps for Southern California added 3.5 million acres into fire-hazard zones, increasing the acreage in the ...

explains what causes extreme winds like this in Southern California, and why they create such a dangerous fire risk. What causes the Santa Ana winds? The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds ...

Cal Fire said the maps are proactive, to be used in wildland-urban interface building standards for new construction and ...

A month after an official with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection was found slain in her home, the woman’s wife has been arrested in Mexico on suspicion of murder SAN ...