Chaparral, Calif.’s fire-adapted ecosystem, often goes overlooked. That is, except for when the high severity firestorms blaze through human communities. Chaparral was quickly lambasted during ...

Fire has always shaped ... increasingly destructive wildfires in California and around the world. Southern California is dominated by shrublands known as chaparral. This landscape was historically ...

“But what you’re talking about here is probably less than 1% of all the fires that we respond to in Southern California.” The Palisades fire ignited ... the region’s chaparral shrublands ...

The blaze, which firefighters dubbed the Fig Fire as it burned near the intersection of Fig Street and Hoover Avenue off the I-215 Freeway, was first reported at around 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, ...

KPBS reporter John Carroll explains how one iconic area is now safer from fire than it was before. Some San Diego firefighters spent Friday morning spraying down chaparral in the San Carlos ...

A new fire in Riverside County, California, has triggered evacuation orders and warnings. Firefighters responded to a structure fire Thursday evening on the 41000 block of Fig Street, which spread ...

A fire extended from a burning Murrieta home amid gusting winds Thursday. Evacuations were ordered, and warnings were issued nearby.

Another TV crew captured video of a disoriented, seemingly orphaned fawn trotting down the middle of a street near the Eaton Fire ... In California, they adapted to coastal chaparral fires but ...

Nearly a week earlier, the Palisades Fire tore through the canyon neighborhood, leveling homes, melting vehicles and chewing through hills thick with chaparral. Resident E.V. and his wife stayed ...

The Fig fire, a vegetation fire, broke out in Murrieta, Riverside County, on Thursday, January 23, prompting evacuation warnings for surrounding areas. RESTRICTIONS AND USAGE TERMS: Please credit “Mac ...