
What — or who — started the Palisades fire? Two leading theories emerge
For the last few weeks, a team of investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has worked out of a command post in the Highlands neighborhood…
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‘This has been really devastating’: Inside the lives of incarcerated firefighters battling the L.A. wildfires
Every other day, Joseph McKinney, Joseph Sevilla and Sal Almanza wake up around 4 a.m. and eat breakfast at their base camp at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena before heading…
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Griffith Park reopens after Sunset fire; Runyon remains closed
Griffith Park has reopened to the public, a little over a week after the Sunset fire broke out in the area. The 4,210-acre park and its sprawling network of hiking…
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Firefighters Battle to Keep Palisades Blaze From Pushing Into Mandeville Canyon
Fire officials battling the Palisades blaze, the largest in the Los Angeles area, said late Saturday that they had made progress, managing to stop the fire from pushing downhill into…
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Fire crews contain blaze near homes in Pacific Palisades
A Pacific Palisades brush fire that was burning close to homes early Wednesday morning has been contained, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The blaze was reported just after…
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Red flag warning as winds challenge crews fighting Franklin fire
Wide swaths of Los Angeles and Ventura counties are under a red flag warning until 6 p.m. Wednesday as Santa Ana winds whip back up, posing a challenge to crews…
Read More »Mountain fire destroys 200 structures, $6M in agricultural losses
As firefighters increase containment against Ventura County’s devastating Mountain fire, new access to burned areas has revealed even more damage from the blaze that exploded last week during an exceptional…
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Firefighters make progress in battle against Mountain fire in Southern California
Firefighters continued making progress Sunday against the destructive Mountain fire in Ventura County. The blaze, which has burned more than 20,000 acres and destroyed 134 structures, was about 26% contained…
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GoCars, some with lithium-ion batteries, destroyed in San Diego fire
A sightseeing tour company in San Diego is having to hit the brakes on rentals after about 30 of its vehicles, including several powered by lithium-ion batteries, went up in…
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Favorable weather assists firefighters in battling the devastating Mountain fire
Favorable weather conditions helped thousands of firefighters get the upper hand Saturday on the devastating Mountain fire that has scorched some 20,000 acres, destroyed more than 130 homes and damaged…
Read More »3 dead, 2 critically injured as fire tears through L.A. home
A fearsome fire ripped through a Temple City home Sunday evening, killing three people and critically wounding two others, authorities said. The L.A. County Fire Department received a call regarding…
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Person jumps from window of burning L.A. apartment building, survives
A person jumped out of a window to escape a fierce fire that ignited in a four-story Westlake apartment building Sunday morning and survived with injuries, authorities said. The cause…
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L.A. serial arson suspect arrested, accused of lighting fires downtown
A man suspected of starting a string of fires in downtown Los Angeles — including a blaze that required 170 firefighters to extinguish and caused $7 million in damage —…
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Yacht with 1,000 rounds of ammunition and fireworks burns
Marina del Rey’s harbor produced an unexpected light show Wednesday evening as a luxury yacht loaded with ammunition and fireworks burned for more than two hours before flames were extinguished,…
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California wildfire evacuees wait, hope blaze spares them
The Airport fire, which sparked Monday in Orange County’s Trabuco Canyon, has gained ferocity. On Wednesday, the fire was still burning out of control as it moved into Riverside County,…
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Maui firefighters left before blaze plowed through Lahaina
LAHAINA, Hawaii — In the first hours of what would become the Maui firestorm, firefighters had a fateful choice. After responding to an initial small fire on the edge of town…
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