Firefighters made progress on the more than 10,000-acre Hughes Fire Friday, which sent thousands fleeing after sparking near ...

The native landscape is chaparral, not forest—and clearing out the brush could make fires even worse. When the Palisades Fire started near a hiking trail in Los Angeles on January 7—quickly spreading ...

As wildfires intensify, state and federal fire agencies are relying more on aerial fire retardant, sparking concerns over its ...

Crews battling the deadly Los Angeles wildfires ... to the US Forest Service. Researchers from the University of Southern California have said it is “plausible” that fire suppressants have ...

Besides Cal Fire, multiple agencies have dropped fire retardant and water, including the U.S. Forest Service, the Los Angeles and Ventura county fire departments, the city and the National Guard.

Los Angeles, 90064 ... aircraft can do,” said Dennis Burns, a fire-behavior analyst on the Eaton fire. Robert Garcia, fire chief for the U.S. Forest Service, said Monday morning, there were ...

The Eaton Fire is among the largest of the infernos that have burned a large swath of the Los Angeles ... the Forest Service ...

Authorities battling a series of large wildfires in the Los Angeles ... common fire-suppression tool that has been used for more than half a century. It is approved for use by the U.S. Forest ...