In a matter of hours, entire blocks of the Los Angeles area were destroyed, gutting thriving communities and leaving ...

PHOTOS: Powerful images show destruction ... Strong winds that sent wildfires ripping through the mountains and foothills around Los Angeles fed a spectacle of smoke, flames and flight.

Another huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles last night, and charred more than 15 square miles of trees near Lake Castaic ...

In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods this week, killing at least 11 people and ...

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