Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who led the department between 2018 and 2022. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images “Both the LA Sheriff’s Department and the LAPD are missing ...

A warehouse storing fireworks caught fire and exploded Tuesday, sending a fireball into the air and causing pyrotechnics to ...

Los Angeles slashed its fire department's budget last year while prioritizing spending for its homeless population, a move that has fallen under scrutiny as wildfires rage.

A California wildfire that started on Wednesday afternoon continues to burn, having destroyed over 35,000 acres as of ...

More than half of the California National Guard’s firefighting teams were put under federal command, with no way to recall ...

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Los Angeles County Fire Department are among the agencies tackling the fires, and federal resources have also been deployed. FACT ...

Since the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection started tracking death and destruction figures in 1932, no other wildfire in Los Angeles County has completely destroyed up to 1,000 ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released updated fire-hazard severity-zone maps for Los Angeles County for the first time in over a decade on Monday, adding more than ...

A county jail in Castaic has been partially evacuated, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The jail is just south of the fire area and can hold as many as 4,295 ...

Authorities say the fire, which started on January 8, was quickly extinguished by the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Law enforcement also detained a man near the Kenneth fire in Woodland ...

The Line fire began the evening of Sept. 5, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and has since burned more than 36,000 acres, with 18% containment as of ...

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Los Angeles County Fire Department are among the agencies tackling the fires, and federal resources have also been deployed. FACT ...