Reporting from Santa Clarita, Calif. There are several fire engines in the parking lot outside the entrance to the Pitchess Detention Center. The wind is steady but not strong and the air is thick ...

Officials across the Los Angeles area had plenty of warning that a deadly confluence of wind and drought was coming. A bad fire was likely. Did they do enough to get ready? By Shawn Hubler ...

The warnings cover the areas of Calabasas and Agoura Hills, Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, Malibu Coast and Santa Clarita Valley ... pre-positioning fire engines to be ready to respond to ...

A windstorm that forecasters described as potentially destructive and life-threatening will develop across Southern California Tuesday morning, dramatically raising the risk of wildfires for the ...

As winds began to die down Wednesday, there was growing despair and frustration in the vast fire ... Santa Ana wind corridor stretching southwest through places including Palmdale, Santa Clarita ...

Santa Clarita. Update (2:30 p.m.) See video of the Hughes Fire rapidly growing in the hills of Castaic on Wednesday. As of 1 p.m. Wednesday, CAL FIRE has deployed 20 pre-positioned engines ...

"The problem is that the scope of the disaster is so vast that there are thousands of firefighters and hundred of fire engines drawing ... that his own home in Santa Clarita - about 45 minutes ...

The @NWSSPC Fire Weather Outlook is highlighting portions of Southern California as Extreme for Wednesday. Wind speeds reached 86 mph at the Magic Mountain Truck Trail in Santa Clarita ...

"We have nice calm conditions, we're going to capitalize on these favorable conditions to get more aircraft in the air and support it with hand crews and additional fire engines and see if we can ...

with the Lidia Fire spewing a plume of smoke above Acton, a community on Highway 14 between Santa Clarita and Palmdale. Meteorologist Daniel Swain, showing footage of the Lidia Fire’s plume on ...