Santa Ana winds helped ignite more brush fires in Southern California, but firefighters were able to largely control the large Hughes fire that exploded and forced thousands of evacuations. Rain was ...

A resident sent WRAL News a photo of smoke visible in one of the buildings. "It was a pretty big fire," Crawley said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

In the 1970s, when I first became a firefighter, a really big fire was 10,000 acres. Oh, for those good old days. Today, a 10,000-acre fire doesn’t even raise an eyebrow unless it’s in Los ...