Technology and unstable communications also were cited as factors in evacuation delays, according to the Los Angeles Police ...

County Supervisor Kathryn Barger conceded this week that county fire department was responsible for "a gap" between when evacuation alerts were needed and actually ordered.

Evacuation warnings are lifted as a powerful storm fades across Southern California, though officials warn of lingering mud ...

LOS ANGELES >> An atmospheric river hit Los Angeles in the early hours of this morning, bringing with it scattered downpours, ...

Garfield High School students were evacuated Monday morning as authorities raided an illegal fireworks lab in East L.A. and ...

Public records showed that Luis Refugio Acosta owns the property. Cal Fire could not confirm that they took Refgio Acosta ...

Evacuation orders were lifted in the city of Weed on Sunday afternoon, hours after a blaze broke out in town. A large swath of the city, which lies just west of Mount Shasta and has a population of ...

In Pacific Palisades, residents and workers in burn zones are racing to prepare for what could be the strongest October storm ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare October storm pummeled Southern California with several inches of rain on Tuesday, swelling rivers, causing freeway accidents and prompting evacuations in wildfire-scarred ...

A Brooklyn school was evacuated Tuesday morning after someone from California phoned in a bomb threat, officials said. Administrators at I.S. 49, the William Gaynor Intermediate School, on Graham Ave.