The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reducing the reimbursement city and rural fire departments get for responding to ...

The smell of wet grass from the recent atmospheric river rains, mud and gasoline wafts through the warm Southern California ...

Jaime Moore said he is taking a forward-looking approach and is not seeking to assign blame for changes to the Oct. 8 report ...

Patty Phillips was racing to evacuate from her Malibu home last January when her car got stuck on a boulder, immobilizing her as flames closed in. One year later, she's reuniting again with the Los ...

The head of the Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD) revealed this week that the after-action analysis of the devastating Palisades Fire was edited several times to protect leadership, a report ...

Three people were injured after a retaining wall fell in Lennox Wednesday. The 3-foot wall in the 4900 block of Lennox Boulevard fell just before noon, according to the Los Angeles County Fire ...

EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- One person is dead and three others were injured in a shooting Tuesday evening in East Los Angeles near the 5 Freeway, authorities said. The shooting was reported at around ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The city of Los Angeles repeatedly approved development in fire-prone areas in violation of state standards for ...

A proposal to raise Los Angeles’ sales tax by a half-cent to fund the Los Angeles Fire Department has cleared a required procedural step, allowing proponents to begin collecting signatures to place ...

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Days before the Palisades Fire in California spiraled out of control, one fire captain refrained from deploying bulldozers due to concerns about “endangered plants” in the region, according to the Los ...

Los Angeles County experienced its wettest Christmas in modern history last week as a powerful "Pineapple Express" atmospheric river dumped extreme rainfall across the region from Dec. 22-29, ...