A recent executive order by California Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to ramp up fire safety in urban areas as new maps released by the state show more than 1 million acres are at a higher risk of wildfires.

There is now a 30% chance of intense rain between Feb. 12 and 15 in Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo ...

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department plans to conduct prescribed pile burns along Paradise Road today and tomorrow, as conditions allow. Prescribed fires typically burn less intensely than ...

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department plans to conduct prescribed pile burns along Paradise Road today, Monday, Feb. 10, and tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb.

The California Department ... Cal Fire has historically updated its fire hazard maps only when the state Legislature requested it. After the 1980 Panorama fire in San Bernardino County that ...

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The Kern County Fire Department announced the beginning of open burning of hazard reduction fuels at 8 a.m. Saturday. KCFD said it is actively monitoring fuel moisture and weather conditions. The ...

The Southern California wildfires reached 100 percent containment on January 31, the same day that President Donald Trump ...

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President Trump was greeted by Gov. Gavin Newsom when he arrived in Los Angeles Friday for a tour of areas damaged by two of the deadliest and destructive wildfires on record in California.

Below her were the remnants of a homeless encampment in a small canyon by San Diego’s Valencia Park neighborhood. While the county ... map. Now comes the monitoring. The fire department didn ...