Prescribed fires are a critical tool to preventing catastrophic wildfires. Such controlled burning helps reduce the intensity of future fires because it eliminates brush and other flammable materials, ...

Numerous fires have been sparked in extreme fire danger weather, with treacherous wind gusts driving devastation.

The NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA issued a red flag warning at 4:01 p.m. on Wednesday in effect until Friday at 6 p.m. The ...