The Midway Fire broke out at 2:51 p.m. near Patterson Pass Road and Midway Road in Alameda County south of the Altamont Pass, according to Cal Fire.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Multiple volunteer fire departments responded Wednesday to a fire at the Hughes Brothers Inc. manufacturing facility in Seward. Photos from the scene showed flames coming ...

MISSOULA, Mont. – Fire Chief Gordy Hughes will retire from the City of Missoula Fire Department on June 30, concluding a 32-year career in fire service.

The Hughes fire had begun that morning less than 5 miles from Ortega’s dorm in Pitchess Detention Center North, one of four lockups at the county’s sprawling Castaic jail complex.

Looking Fire, and Fear, Square in the Eye Alyce McFadden, a reporting fellow on The Times’s Metro desk, writes about what covering a disaster for the first time brought home to her.

A brush fire erupted Wednesday night along the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass, near Bel Air. AIR7 was over the scene around 11:15 p.m. as the blaze burned on a hillside east of the 405.

A brush fire erupted Wednesday night along the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass, near Bel Air. AIR7 was over the scene around 11:15 p.m. as the blaze burned on a hillside east of the 405.

In Los Angeles County, the advisory included the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, Griffith Park, and the Sepulveda Pass. Nearly half an inch of rain per hour was expected at its peak in those areas ...

Nearby crews fully contained the Pala Fire, another small blaze. In the Los Angeles area, parts of Interstate 5 near the Hughes Fire, which had been closed, reopened.

The Hughes fire has burned more than 10,000 acres since it erupted late Wednesday morning in Castaic, California, triggering mandatory evacuations in nearby areas.