Fire victims’ experiences, and damning grand jury findings, depict a county government unprepared to meet the needs of ...

The CZU inferno destroyed about 700 homes in Santa Cruz County. Of those, 127 residences have been rebuilt and another 134 are under construction, according to the county.

USA TODAY analysis finds 3.3 million Americans live in areas with "very high" wildfire risk and 14.8 million more at ...

Eagle County is at risk of experiencing a large-scale wildfire. “We’ve always been and we probably always will be,” said Hugh ...

Volunteer firefighters for the Boulder Creek Fire District are joined by reinforcements from other California fire departments to battle the CZU August Lightning Complex fire on Aug. 20 ...

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

A third of the San Mateo County Fire Department is made up of volunteers, an exception to the norm in the Bay Area.

"John Fisher, a retired battalion chief with San Diego Fire-Rescue, said California is among the ... water from the Colorado River and Boulder Creek into pipes to restore pressure.

Yet the southern California ... Fire in Colorado, the city of Louisville’s water department had workers manually open valves to let untreated water from the Colorado River and Boulder Creek ...