Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley asked for full-time employees to augment a mostly volunteer brush-clearing crew two years ago.

The devastating fires in Los Angeles are revealing just how deeply ill-prepared the city was for a disaster of such magnitude. While nobody can ever be fully […] ...

8 a.m.: The Los Angeles Fire Department pre-deploys and pre ... due to the red flag conditions, according to Chief Kristin Crowley. 10:20 a.m.: A live camera with AlertCalifornia, a UC San Diego ...

Millions of Southern Californians were on edge as winds began picking up during a final round of dangerous fire weather forecast for the region where two massive blazes have killed at least 25 and ...

Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley defended her decisions. “I can tell you and stand before you, we did everything in our capability to surge where we could,” she told a news conference.

LA city fire chief pushes back on criticism over wildfire response Los Angeles City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said Wednesday there would be lessons to be learned about the response to the fires ...

But critical fire weather conditions will continue through Wednesday evening, Los Angeles County Fire ... LA City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said. Powerful 70 mph winds haven’t happened yet ...

Weeks after the Franklin and deadly Palisades fires decimated communities in the Malibu and Pacific Palisades areas, members ...

Eaton fire erupted, according to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. On Jan. 21, the Los Angeles County medical examiner ...

Mayor Karen Bass and chief recovery officer Steve Soboroff said the city would soon hire an outside firm to represent the ...

The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...

The chief executive of a home builder based in Los Angeles said it’s going to take a while for homes to be rebuilt after the wildfires that have devastated the area. KB Home Chairman and CEO ...