However, when wildfires begin consuming homes and businesses, the ash is made up of much more toxic materials. This can have ...

Alyce McFadden, a reporting fellow on The Times’s Metro desk, writes about what covering a disaster for the first time brought home to her.

The fires consumed not only trees, brush and timber ... wear an N95 mask — an ordinary surgical mask doesn’t sufficiently filter out smoke particulates, experts say. In your home, make ...

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As wildfires have burned recently across southern California, the ash from burned trees and brush is ... to keep the smoke out as much as possible. Wear a well-fitting mask when outdoors.

Concerning video shows firefighting helicopters dropping water as flames and smoke billow from the hillside near an apartment complex and the Fashion Valley Mall.

As the horrific fires in Los Angeles continue burning ... Nina Griffee, CEO of Cambridge Mask Co, told Newsweek the risk level is "completely unknown." The wildfires raging across Los Angeles ...

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires also continue burning in the Los Angeles area, leaving parts of Southern California with devastating fire damage.

Southern California’s fire season ... people from the smoke outside, sheriff’s officials said, they shut down the air circulation inside the jails and offered masks to inmates and staff.

Mom, are we going to have to run?' Here's how the first 24 hours of our unprecedented conflagration unfolded across L.A.