No stranger to natural disasters, Pasadena resident Pedro Rojas keeps a safety bag in his car with essentials like a jacket, gloves and running shoes in case he needs to flee at a moment’s notice.

A brush fire broke out Tuesday near the Pacific Palisades, a coastal neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles, and quickly exploded.

A second major fire erupted in the Los Angeles area as firefighters struggled to contain the Pacific Palisades blaze.

Those looking to assist residents affected by the Los Angeles County firestorm have a number of options to donate money, materials or their time.

More than 10,000 structures across Los Angeles County have been reduced to ashes as wildfires continue to blaze across parts of Southern California.

California schools and students are facing a long road to recovery as wildfires in the Los Angeles area damage dozens of school buildings and take hundreds of thousands of children out of the

This is a hurricane of fire,"Maue said of the California winds. Winds in the Los Angeles area were ... within the city of Los Angeles. It's located about 10 miles southeast of Santa Clarita or 20 miles northwest of Pasadena. The cause of the fires are ...

Friday, 4:50 p.m. PST Cal Fire reported 31% containment on the 23,713-acre Palisades Fire, meaning firefighters now have control of about one-third of the perimeter of the fire; Cal Fire also reported 65% containment for the Eaton Fire and full containment of the Auto and Hurst fires.

The city of Pasadena has declared a local public health emergency​ a week after the Eaton Fire caused widespread destruction.

As fires continue to burn through Southern California, some of the region's landmarks have been burned or destroyed by the blazes.

Just under a year later, Los Angeles is on fire and the fire hydrants have run dry from a lack of water. “In 2014, in the middle of a severe drought that would test California’s complex water ...