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

Napa County has a lot more red on the proposed update of Cal Fire’s statewide fire hazard severity zone map, and some rural residents fear that could unfairly affect already skyrocketing ...

Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles wildfires. Some were sent to too many people, some to too few.

Australians have a soft spot for California. It is on our screens in TV and movies. For most of us travelling to the US ...

Adrienne Heinz knows firsthand what it’s like to flee a fire zone — and what it takes for a community to rebuild afterward. The Healdsburg resident evacuated her home as the 2017 Tubbs Fire tore ...

Vasya Tremsin, a (then) high school senior from the San Francisco Bay Area, came up with a crazy idea for a science fair project, “a technology that can detect fires early,” he tells ...

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

Nearly a month since blazes ignited across Los Angeles County, the channels of communications have been established between ...

For a time, California's insurance system was maybe workable. Big, destructive fires used to be rarer, so the insurance ...