Containment measures the percentage of a fire's perimeter that firefighters have under control. Parts of the fire's interior ...

State legislators are calling to extend Cal Fire's staffing to a year-round system, switching some roles from nine-month ...

About 3,000 seasonal firefighters would go from nine to 12-month employees as the wildfire season is now year-round.

Over 1,100 firefighters were “strategically pre-positioned” across Southern California to address "ongoing critical fire ...

Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire proposed that state firefighters work full time in place of the seasonal workforce the agency currently staffs for nine months each year.

The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire's "very high" fire hazard severity zones, yet ...

All wildfires burning in Southern California were largely contained as of Thursday morning, even after a new fire ignited in ...

LA County Sheriff says about 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders while another 23,000 were under evacuation ...

Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,706.6 acres after being active for 29 days. A crew of 800 firefighters managed to contain the blaze entirely ...

Fires in the Inland Empire and Orange County that broke out this week were stopped from becoming more dangerous because of ...

At the time of publication, the Laguna fire had burned approximately 50 acres and was still listed at 0 percent containment, ...