LA mayor picks new fire chief to fill void following most destructive wildfire in city history

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has picked a 30-year fire department veteran as the new fire chief months after she ousted the previous chief over handling of the most destructive wildfire in the city’s ...

Trump ‘retired’ a database tracking the most expensive weather disasters. Now it’s back — and finding over $100B in losses

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration ”retired” in May, has relaunched ...

Officials arrest man in Florida on suspicion of starting devastating Palisades Fire

Nine months after a raging inferno decimated the Los Angeles area, claiming the lives of a dozen people and burning down ...

Massive fire breaks out at the largest oil-producing facility on the West Coast, near Los Angeles

A large fire broke out Thursday night at a Chevron refinery, in El Segundo, the largest oil-producing facility on the West ...

South Carolina authorities are investigating a fire that engulfed the home of state circuit court judge

A blaze that engulfed the South Carolina home of a state circuit court judge and her husband, a former state senator, is ...