A new wildfire was reported today at 2:14 a.m. in Los Angeles County, California. Lake Fire has been burning on private land.

County Supervisor Kathryn Barger conceded this week that county fire department was responsible for "a gap" between when evacuation alerts were needed and actually ordered.

That devastation — and the federal and state dollars it burns through in suppression and prevention costs — has caught the ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 12:27 p.m. in Los Angeles County, California. Lake Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service. Currently, there is no ...

Traffic is nearly completely blocked on U.S. Route 50 in Elmhurst, following a vehicle fire on Thursday afternoon.

In every state, urban legends have been scaring residents for years, and they can mean big business for local economies. Here are stories from across the US.

WILLMAR — A blood test found that alcohol was not a factor in the Sept. 26 crash that killed one passenger and severely injured another when Wood Lake fire truck rolled over in a ditch near Cottonwood ...

SEELEY LAKE, Mont. — The Seeley Lake Rural Fire District quickly knocked down a structure fire off Woodworth Road Monday morning. A water tender, engine, brush truck and ambulance arrived to see smoke ...

WESH TWO NEWS STARTS NOW WITH BREAKING NEWS. THAT BREAKING NEWS INVOLVES ONE OF THE BIGGEST CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES IN HISTORY. A MAN LIVING IN MELBOURNE. HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA HAS BEEN ARRESTED, ...

STORM LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) - The City of Storm Lake has hired a new fire chief, according to the city’s Facebook page. Terence S. Sinner has accepted the position of Storm Lake Fire Chief. Sinner will ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --Jonathan Rinderknect was charged on Wednesday with starting the Pacific Palisades fire that burned through most of January, killed a dozen people and burned more than 23,000 acres.

Thankfully, last week’s explosion and fire at California’s second largest refinery, Chevron’s El Segundo plant, was not an environmental catastrophe. But it could have serious economic and political ...