officials in Sonoma and Napa counties decided against sending such mass wireless alerts, worrying that they would cause county-wide gridlock and panic. Instead, they relied on an older system that ...

My first professional exposure to fire risk management with trees and landscapes was back in 1994. It was the second annual ...

Just after 4 p.m., Michelle Parris, director of the Vera Institute of Justice’s California office, joined in the calls for evacuation. “The county must call on all the state and county ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A brush fire ignited Wednesday near Castaic Lake in north Los Angeles County amid windy and dry conditions. The blaze, called the Hughes Fire, erupted around 10:30 a.m. and ...

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.

Below, you'll find maps showing the evacuation zone and the areas under San ... expect a heavy backup in the immediate area. 4:16 a.m.: Per North County Fire Protection District, evacuation ...

The Following Zones ... 4:30 p.m. Escorts will occur at Parking Lot 3 Beach Access, 1150 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA 90403. Per the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: ALL ...

A fast-moving blaze that began as a brush fire Wednesday spread across nearly 9,500 acres of bone-dry Los Angeles County ... Castaic Lake in the fire evacuation zone, according to the ACLU ...

Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County said the jail campus has multiple facilities and that 4,500 inmates remained on the campus, which is in the mandatory evacuation zone. He added that a ...

More were living in evacuation warning zones ... part of the county, the sheriff said. The Hughes Fire grew to more than 8,000 acres with 0% containment as of 4 p.m. PST, Cal Fire said.