Officials are bracing for the return of fierce Santa Ana winds as they try to contain large blazes in the Los Angeles area.

Residents embrace in front of a fire-ravaged property after the Palisades Fire swept through in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent, ...

“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill and Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis are among those evacuating their homes as fires continue to ...

Meanwhile, firefighters battled multiple wildfires Thursday that ravaged communities across Los Angeles, destroying more than ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY − A 700-acre controlled burn is underway Wednesday at the St. Sebastian ... officials said residents might see smoke and ash from the prescribed burn. Jan. 6 riot: Will ...

Thousands of firefighters and first responders are trying to contain the flames and evacuate residents – even as their own ...

Why did water hydrants run dry in the midst of a conflagration? City officials stressed that the shortage was due to low ...

Amidst an unseasonably dry January, fierce wildfires erupted in Southern California, forcing residents to flee as flames ...

“Don’t know about the synagogue yet,” Cantor Chayim Frenkel wrote in an email just after midnight Wednesday ... Torahs out safely as well, while ash was coming down in our parking ...

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Weary Los Angeles firefighters were dispatched to fight two new blazes that erupted Wednesday night — a fast-growing brush ... had subsided by 9 p.m. as ash fell on the streets.