The Clear Range fire burns near Bredbo North after overrunning the property of Lawrence and Claire Cowie on Feb. 1, 2020, near Canberra, Australia. (Brook Mitchell / Getty Images) The residents of ...

When wildfires spread into neighborhoods, they burn all kinds of materials found in cars and houses and everything around them – electronics, paint, plastics, furniture. Research shows that the mix of ...

Do you guys have oven mitts? Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. I recently learned some valuable fire safety lessons the hard way. Responding for food on fire ...

To the editor: Reporter Corinne Purtill’s article on the 2013 Rim fire (“Lessons from Yosemite, a decade after the Rim fire,” April 17) romanticizes a misleading narrative that high-intensity ...

As fires continue to burn in the Los Angeles area, thousands of people who lost their homes are now confronted with difficult decisions — including whether to rebuild and how to do so in a way that ...

There’s a saying that the late L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan cited during his tenure when it came to government red tape, and it came in handy amid a catastrophe that, until last week, was a notch higher ...

A firefighter signals for water while a house is engulfed in flames during the 2018 Woolsey Fire. The blaze overwhelmed first responders and revealed deep flaws in Los Angeles County's emergency ...

The residents of Canberra might know a little about what Los Angeles is going through. Exactly 22 years ago, a wildfire became a devastating urban fire in the Australian capital. On Jan. 18, 2003, ...