During a new process aimed at increasing the county’s fiscal transparency, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone on Wednesday defended the department’s aerial firefighting capabilities during ...

With the use of drones, the LA Sheriff’s Department can keep an eye on search and rescue missions, fire response and rain ...

Reflecting intensifying wildfires and updated science, new state maps designate more than 2.3 million acres of local land in ...

Four teams from the Northeast Region of the HOPE Animal-Assisted Crisis Response (AACR) organization were recently called to ...

The county is still a long way from its goal of reducing response times to 30 minutes on average, so it is exploring ways to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who was recorded violently tackling and pepper-spraying a woman ...

A man armed with a machete was fatally shot by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in Paramount. Body camera footage showed the man approaching the deputy with the machete before the shooting ...

Around 4 p.m.: An evacuation alert is mistakenly ... still "probably at least a week out" from returning home, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna says during a briefing. Though later in ...

Evacuation orders and warnings were issued to more than 31,000 people in the vicinity of two new wildfires north of Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los ...

Nearly 500 inmates at a local jail were being evacuated, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna ... A few inches of snow are also possible above 4,000ft (1,200m).

Over 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings Wednesday. Los Angeles County sheriff's officials didn't provide new information on evacuations Thursday. There were no reports of homes ...

"You need to leave, you need to leave immediately," said LA County Sheriff Robert Luna ... a.m. before spreading to over 8,000 acres by around 4 p.m. local time. It's burning up through dry ...