A hard-charging brush fire erupted in northern Los Angeles County on Wednesday, hustling through 5,054 acres of terrain so ...

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The Hughes Fire has spread over 8,096 acres after starting just before lunchtime in Los Angeles County's Castaic Lake area on ...

LA County Sheriff says about 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders while another 23,000 were under evacuation ...

Photos taken of the Hughes Fire around Castaic Lake, California captured the massive blaze and cloud of smoke visible from ...

The Hughes fire has burned through 3,407 acres since it started late Wednesday morning, according to local officials.

The fire threat remains critical in Southern California, where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders Wednesday ...

The Hughes fire has prompted mandatory evacuations in Castaic, California, as the fire has a "rapid rate of spread" Cal Fire ...

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you ... at about 10:30 a.m. off the 5 Freeway at Lake Hughes Road in hillside brush that fire authorities described as critically dry.

Firefighters battled two new brush fires - the Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake and the Sepulveda Fire in Bel Air, along the 405 ...

Some evacuation orders have been lifted as firefighters with air support slowed the spread of the Hughes Fire, but new blazes ...