Severe Weather Awareness Week continues Friday with a focus on temperature extremes and wildfires, both of which pose risks ...

Now, fire and EMS workers are learning tactics to prevent on-the-clock attacks and diffuse volatile situations through two ...

We can all learn from tragedy. In January, a Streator family learned an important lesson and the lesson saved two lives.

Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) An air tanker drops fire retardant next to the Thousand ...

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The latest blaze - dubbed the Hughes Fire - started late on Wednesday morning near Lake Castaic, around 40 miles from the Eaton and Palisades wildfires that devastated parts of LA earlier this month.

The Hughes Fire has burned more than 9,000 acres Wednesday around the Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County on Wednesday continuing a devastating wave of Southern California wildfires fueled by dry ...

Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76 Musa Serdar Terzioglu/Anadolu via Getty Twenty children were among the 76 fatal victims of ...

A survivor who managed to escape the flames told local media that no alarms rang at the hotel when the fire started, complaining of a lack of any safety measures such as fire stairs or smoke ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday ... quality and the need to assess facility safety extended the closures, which affected ...

In San Diego County, the Friars Fire erupted on Tuesday near a shopping mall, prompting immediate evacuation orders as the flames quickly spread. Southern California faces another round of extreme ...

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