The biggest storm of the winter walloped Southern California on Thursday, but by Friday morning conditions were improving as ...

Riverside city firefighters combined several pieces of technology to hasten the rescue of two homeless men who climbed a tree ...

By Bobby Bascomb The devastating fires that swept through parts of Los Angeles, U.S., in January raged for more than three ...

Even as I urged them to leave, from my home in the Mojave Desert, I was moved by a different compulsion: to get in my car, report to work and rush, via fire engine or helicopter, toward the fires. It ...

Riverside firefighters in boats rescued two men and two dogs who were trapped by fast-moving water on the Santa Ana River bottom, authorities said Friday. The dangerous incident was reported at about ...

Just a month after fierce Santa Ana winds propelled a firestorm across Los Angeles County, residents faced another extreme ...

County authorities reported more than 120 outdoor fires last month – at least double that of any other January in the past ...

In extreme conditions, no amount of brush clearance can guarantee protection. Indeed, too much clearing can in fact leave ...

What remains from the fires that broke out Jan. 7 is a charred landscape, filled with skeletal trees and blackened debris.

The storm poses significant dangers along the Santa Ana River bottom. "It can be very dangerous. It can sweep people away.

Kevin Baird’s home, located up against Carpinteria’s foothills, was immensely overgrown when Baird and his wife, Donna, ...