New law, attorney tells the state Supreme Court, demands that Raymond Oyler’s murder convictions, death penalty be overturned ...

The fires raging around Los Angeles bring to mind another devastating U.S. fire that killed more than a thousand people on ...

It would be easy to assume Andrew Rick always wanted to be a firefighter. That was the career path of his father, a veteran ...

While some Angelenos cast around for someone to blame, a whole cooperative emergency-response system whirred to life.

With thousands of lives at risk, a mobile command post tasked with issuing evacuation orders struggled to keep pace with the ...

The US Forest Service is fighting to keep in place a plan to raze the equivalent of 500 Central Parks in California’s forests ...

As of 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30, firefighters were continuing burnout operations in McDowell County on the North Fork Fire, which has ...

The 250-acre fire started after a tree fell on a power line on Bat Cave Road in Old Fort, an area already recovering from ...

The Great Chicago Fire? Right date ... damage was to timberland not man-made structures. Forest fires have traditionally been classified as disasters only when severe economic loss occurs.

Salt River Project, with aid from corporate, government and nonprofit partners, is thinning Arizona forests to prevent wildfires and save water.

OLD FORT, N.C. — Firefighters continue to make progress against the North Fork Fire in McDowell County, which is now 65% ...