Thousands of Orange County residents remain evacuated from their homes across six cities during the Memorial Day holiday due to an ongoing threat posed by a failing chemical tank at a Garden Grove

Firefighters responded to a vegetation fire Saturday in the area of Carbon Canyon and Olinda Place in unincorporated Brea. (O.C. Fire Authority) Orange County firefighters battled a brush fire Saturday that prompted evacuation warnings for some communities ...

IRVINE, Calif. (KABC) -- The Orange County Fire Authority has a new interim fire chief. TJ McGovern was unanimously appointed by the OCFA Board of Directors after the retirement of Brian Fennessy, who is now leading the newly created U.S. Wildland Fire Service

Evacuation warnings have been issued for a brush fire burning in unincorporated Brea in Orange County.

The worst fears around an unstable, increasingly high-temperature chemical plant in Orange County will fortunately not come to pass, fire officials announced Monday. The Orange County Fire Authority said the threat of a massive chemical explosion has been “eliminated.

Even as evacuation orders have been lifted following the Garden Grove chemical crisis, Orange County supervisor Vicente Sarimento said there are still many concerns about the possible impacts. He said officials will be conducting a full investigation to try and find out how the initial leak took place.