According to Cal Fire, the Garnet fire—which also began in August—had burned almost 55,000 acres in Fresno County and was 14 percent contained. Video footage from UC San Diego previously captured the ...

The Garnet Fire sparked from a lightning strike on Aug. 24 burned through parts of the Sierra National Forest in eastern ...

For generations, fire lookout towers stood as landmarks across the American West. Binoculars in hand, dedicated fire spotters scanned the landscape for smoke and radioed firefighters before flames ...

Multiple wildfires continue to burn across California, with several still at zero containment and threatening communities.

An intense thunderstorm system moved into the Coachella Valley from northern Mexico on Tuesday morning, Sept. 2.

The drier the storm and the drier the vegetation, the more likely lightning strikes are to spark wildfires, according to the National Weather Service.

As cities expand into forests already primed to burn, experts say Canada needs stronger maps, building codes and planning rules to keep people safe.

SAN DIEGO — Late-summer dry thunderstorms rolled into California from the southwest desert region early Sept. 2, bringing thousands of lightning strikes and increasing the risk of wildfires as high ...

Technically a neighborhood of Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades stood apart, an extra ten minutes’ drive from civilization, on ...