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Rain on burned hillslopes can trigger dangerous floods and debris flows. Those debris flows can move with the speed of a ...

When the fires erupted Jan. 7, burn centers across the Los Angeles region braced for an influx of patients, updating one ...

Southern California mountain communities are prepping for land and mudslide dangers ahead of a winter storm arriving this ...

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Some incidents in life leave you immense pain and scars but only a few can turn it into art. Gaurav Gupta presented his ...

The explosion caused severe burns all over his body, and he was rushed to a corporate ... Ganapathi's kin said how he had never suffered any injuries or scars in his life, and was always known ...

That’s a question that thousands of Los Angeles homeowners are confronting as wildfires continue to burn across the region, destroying an estimated 10,000 structures as of Friday. The answer ...

Here’s what we know. How debris flows begin When severe fires burn hillslopes, the high heat from the fires, sometimes exceeding 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit (538 degrees Celsius), completely destroys ...

Recent wildfires have left Southern California with "burn scars," making the region vulnerable to mudslides. Much of the Los Angeles vegetation that holds the topsoil in place has recently been ...

Rain has finally returned to wildfire-scorched Los Angeles — but now officials are warning flooding and landslides could wreak more chaos on the battered city along its “burn scars.” ...

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.