Dozens of people are believed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have burned down whole swaths of communities

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires ... Palisades, a Los Angeles neighborhood east of Malibu, as a brush fire. The blaze had grown to more than 23,654 acres by Saturday night, according to the California Department ...

Except for a reservoir with a damaged cover that had to be drained, Los Angeles had kept its reservoirs filled before the January 2025 wildfires.

Extreme conditions helped fuel the fast-moving fires that destroyed thousands of homes. Scientists are working to figure out how climate change played a role in the disaster.

The hot-pink mix of water and chemicals, which is sprayed from planes to combat wildfires, is under renewed scrutiny.

Wildfire retardants, the hot-pink mix of water and chemicals sprayed from airplanes by the U.S Forest service to combat wildfires, are under scrutiny after a recent study found they’re a serious source of heavy metal pollution in the U.S.

The Hughes fire, burning near Castaic Lake north of Santa Clarita, exploded to more than 10,000 acres of mostly brush in just a few hours. More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders and warnings.

One of the two major fires that devastated this region — the Eaton fire — is not even in the city of Los Angeles; it is in an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County. The response to the Eaton fire was led by the county fire department; the city fire department was at the forefront in fighting the Palisades fire.

Thirteen years ago, the LAFD took the type of dramatic measures in preparation of dangerous winds that the department failed to employ last week in advance of the Palisades fire.

Héctor Tobar, the son of Guatemalan immigrants, writes in his 2011 novel The Barbarian Nurseries ... which blow dry air from the Great Basin to the California coast, fueled this month's ruinous wildfires. "Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe ...

SAN DIEGO — As wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles County, concerns are mounting over the financial capacity of California's insurer of last resort, the FAIR Plan, to handle what will ...