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

A wildfire that damaged and destroyed hundreds of structures in Ventura County was likely caused by wind-whipped debris from an earlier fire that started days earlier, arson investigators announced ...

Brian Fennessy has nearly 50 years of fire experience, which began in the late 1970s on elite federal hotshot crews and other ...

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Ventura County fire officials announced the cause of last year's massive Mountain Fire, which scorched more than 20,000 acres and destroyed 180 homes, saying it ignited from leftover debris from a ...

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 ...

BUTTE MEADOWS — A petition to ask the U.S. Forest Service to save the Colby Mountain Fire Lookout was among the ideas coming from a community meeting Saturday in this mountain town. About 30 people, ...

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 ...

MONO COUNTY, Calif. – A large wildfire erupted in Mono County, California midday on Nov. 13 and has since burned over 3,000 acres, damaging numerous structures, and forcing mandatory evacuations for ...

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, ...