Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

Perhaps the fires that devastated Los Angeles in early January will take such platitudes out of circulation, at least for a ...

Until this month's fires, it held the record for most structures destroyed in a Los Angeles wildfire. County fire department arson ... into darkness during howling winds, and undergrounding ...

Adam VanGerpen, a Los Angeles Fire Department captain, said future landslides in the burn scars from the recent fires are going to be a major concern once the rainy season kicks into gear.

SAN DIEGO — As wildfires devastated Los Angeles, city leaders there have been criticized for an understaffed fire department and recent budget cuts. As it turns out, San Diego has fewer ...