Rekindled blazes are raising questions about whether agencies need to rethink how they ensure fires are truly extinguished.

More than two dozen structures were destroyed in a wildfire in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains on Wednesday afternoon, officials said. The Pack Fire burned about 3,000 acres in the area of Highway ...

Majesty and mayhem have lived together in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains through decades of deadly fires and ...

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. – Satellite imagery of a large fire burning outside of Los Angeles shows dozens of homes that were destroyed as Santa Ana winds helped drive the flames of the Mountain Fire.

The pile burning project, called Red Mountain Piles, was initiated 12:40 p.m. Nov. 17 in Trinity County, California. The prescribed fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States ...

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Carter Evans has served as a Los Angeles-based correspondent for CBS News since February 2013, reporting across all of the network's platforms. He joined CBS News with nearly 20 years of journalism ...

The Pack fire has grown to 3,400 acres amid high winds, but a coming winter storm might help firefighters control the blaze. By Jesus Jiménez and Jill Cowan Reporting from Los Angeles Firefighters in ...