Strong winds on Monday drove an out-of-control wildfire through a remote area of eastern California, prompting evacuations ...

The Silver fire in Inyo and Mono counties continued to burn Monday morning, scorching 1,250 acres and spurring evacuations.

Cal Fire's new maps for Southern California added 3.5 million acres into fire-hazard zones, increasing the acreage in the ...

A rapidly growing wildfire in California's Eastern Sierra region burned through 1,000 acres and forced evacuations in multiple counties, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal ...

Cal Fire said the maps are proactive, to be used in wildland-urban interface building standards for new construction and ...

The wildfire — which some agencies called the Laws Fire — was reported Sunday afternoon near the highway bridge over the ...

Evacuations were ordered for about 800 homes near the tiny communities of Laws, Chalfant and White Mountain Estates due to ...

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A month after an official with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection was found slain in her home, the woman’s wife has been arrested in Mexico on suspicion of murder SAN ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has updated its classification of areas that are more at ...