The Border 2 Fire, burning in the northwest aspect of the Otay Mountain Wilderness, has scorched 5,389 acres and remains just 10% contained as of Friday morning, CalFire reported. Authorities deployed ...

Evacuations ordered near Los Angeles as wind-driven wildfire threatens remote communities. Stay updated on the Hughes Fire.

CalFire San Diego confirmed that they were assisting the City of Poway, which is 34 miles from San Diego, with a vegetation fire near Pomerado Road and Ted Williams Parkway that broke out around 1 ...

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.

By dawn, however, firefighters had made enough progress to make deployment of the planes unnecessary, Cal Fire Capt. Robert Johnson said. In an update around 9:50 a.m., Cal Fire said the forward ...

Editor's note: This file captures the news of the California wildfires from Tuesday, Jan. 21. For the latest updates on the LA and San Diego fires, follow USA TODAY's coverage for Wednesday, Jan. 22.

Ground efforts were undertaken by Task Force Rattlesnake, a joint task force that integrates California Army and Air National Guard members with CALFIRE, the state agency responsible for wildfire ...

Here’s an overview of the fires in San Diego County as of Tuesday morning. Cal Fire and San Diego County Fire said that they were on scene at a vegetation fire that was approximately five acres ...

In addition, conditions are expected to remain dry with low humidity, Cal Fire said. Los Angeles fire crews quickly extinguished a small brush fire that broke out Monday near Griffith Observatory.

according to CALFIRE. Santa Ana winds, which are high-speed winds that blow from the mountains to the coast in California, could spread these devastating blazes further. The Rocky Mountains will ...

As of the most recent update at 1:40 p.m. Sunday from Cal Fire, the Palisades Fire was at 52% containment. The footprint, as it had been for days, was held to 23,713 acres burned. In its situation ...

She is helping CalFire survey the LA fires' destruction this week."I'm hesitant to put a number factor on exactly how much greater survival rate we'll get," she said. "But, you know, we have to do ...