The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...

If there is a serious objection to private firefighting efforts, it is that focusing on saving particular homes might somehow ...

Firefighters scrambled Sunday to make further progress against wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed 24 people in the Los Angeles area as forecasters again warned of ...

once encountered two snakes fighting. Using a staff, he separated them, and the snakes coiled around the staff in perfect balance, transforming themselves, together with the rod itself ...

There is one way to mitigate this price pressure: If Altadena rebuilds in a manner that is more resilient to wildfires, using fire-resistant home materials for new construction and carving out a ...

Republicans contend that the real game is happening in California, where Democratic leaders have mismanaged their fire-prevention ... and triggered an internal fight within the GOP that benefited ...

In an update Thursday, a report stated that a total of four alarms were requested and dispatched for the fire. The final alarm was called at 1 a.m. It took crews nearly two hours to fight the fire ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accused Hamas of backing out of a cease-fire deal to release hostages and bring a pause to more than a year of fighting in the Gaza Strip.

drew on his experience as a former mayor to extinguish a fire he encountered using the fire extinguisher from his car. To start at the beginning: last Friday evening, in anticipation of a ...