The first arriving engine found a single-story residence with heavy smoke and fire showing from ... and the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal was requested to conduct the investigation.

Robert Wiles and Angie Hodgeboom, another Gig Harbor resident, are both friends of Gerry Gross and ran down to the dock when they saw flames on Saturday. Hodgeboom’s husband also owns two commercial ...

Jackson Ruby, a freelance writer for a California law ... readiness throughout the state, the top two of which focused on establishing an Office of the State Fire Marshal and creating an action ...

Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some ...

Richard Berger, 72, died Saturday evening in a house fire in Deering, the state's chief medical examiner said Tuesday. Berger's cause of death has not been released and the state fire marshal is still ...

South Coast AQMD—the air pollution control agency for all of Orange County and the urban portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties—covers an area of 10,743 square miles that is ...

Three people — including two children — have died in an intense north end apartment blaze that forced dozens of tower residents to flee and caused the shutdown of much of the neighbourhood for ...

Safety standards and regulations have not kept up with emerging technology for battery storage.

Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. PSTCal Fire data marked the Palisades ... to withhold federal disaster funds from California as he blamed the state’s fish conservation efforts in its north for water ...

(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) Saturday, 11:00 a.m. PSTCal Fire data reported the ... federal disaster funds from California as he blamed the state’s fish conservation efforts in its ...

Gavin Newsom, who declared a state of emergency on Jan. 7. Here's how you can help those affected by the wildfires: The California Fire Foundation works with community-based organizations and ...

The three biggest — the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires — are each more than 95% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ... the California Coastal Act. “As ...