A federal program that uses military satellites to track wildfires is particularly useful when aircraft are grounded, as ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

The Los Angeles County Fire Department has placed an order with Sikorsky for two additional S-70i Firehawk firefighting helicopters. In a year that brutally demonstrated the threat that wildfires pose ...

An after-action report on the Palisades Fire was released Wednesday by the Los Angeles Fire Department nine months after the start of the ninth-deadliest wildfire on record in California. The report ...

The Santa Ana winds blew, gale-force, all over Southern California that terrible night of Jan. 7. If fires were to start, they were going to cause havoc, and no amount of human firefighting effort was ...

LOS ANGELES — A rare October storm arrived in California on Tuesday and threatened to pummel wildfire-scarred Los Angeles neighborhoods with heavy rain, high winds and possible mudslides. Some homes ...

A fire that erupted Friday evening on a cargo ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles — requiring more than 180 firefighters to battle the blaze — is now “substantially contained,” according to a news ...