Category Los Angeles

Nearly a week after the destructive Mountain Fire destroyed more than a hundred buildings and torched tens of thousands of acres of brush in Ventura County, firefighters are defending their response to the blaze as some residents return to their…

After burning more than 54,000 acres, the Bridge Fire in the San Gabriel Canyon reached 9% containment by Sunday — a small but welcome sign of progress after mandatory evacuations were expanded three days earlier. The wildfire erupted one week…