The smell of wet grass from the recent atmospheric river rains, mud and gasoline wafts through the warm Southern California air as Alec Derpetrossian works the chainsaw with a foreman, Randy Magaña, ...

Los Angeles firefighters are gathering signatures for a ballot measure to fund more staff, new engines, and stations amid ...

The head of the Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD) revealed this week that the after-action analysis of the devastating Palisades Fire was edited several times to protect leadership, a report ...

As an inferno roared toward her California home last January, Pauline Ching didn’t have time to grab family photos or her Chinese jade and ivory antiques. The house where she had raised her children ...

Three people were injured after a retaining wall fell in Lennox Wednesday. The 3-foot wall in the 4900 block of Lennox Boulevard fell just before noon, according to the Los Angeles County Fire ...

IRVINE, Calif. (KABC) -- If a massive wildfire were to spark in Orange County, will there now be less of a firefight from the air? That's the question 7 On Your Side had after a crucial contract ...

The red flags started at the turn of the new year – an uncommon windstorm was coming to Southern California, bringing dry conditions and wind gusts rare to a region that had been parched for months.

Daniel “Danny” Cook, a crewman for Riverside County Fire Department, died in the line of duty on Wednesday, December 31. The fire apparatus engineer was engaged in firefighting operations at a home in ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- One person is dead and three others were injured in a shooting Tuesday evening in East Los Angeles near the 5 Freeway, authorities said. The shooting was reported at around ...

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A proposal to raise Los Angeles’ sales tax by a half-cent to fund the Los Angeles Fire Department has cleared a required procedural step, allowing proponents to begin collecting signatures to place ...