nearly surpassing the record-setting Santiago Canyon Fire which leveled 300,000 acres in 1889. For me, California fires have meant eight evacuations. Yup. Eight. Eight flights in the ember-lit ...

Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871 accelerated its rise as a dominant metropolis. In Boston, which burned in 1872, the value of land newly topped with better buildings surged. After its 1889 ...

Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading flames, but fire-resistant landscaping helps. It ...

That’s a burn area 315 times larger than that of the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, which burned down the city’s business district and spawned the remaking of Pioneer Square in its iconic brick ...

As brown smoke from the Palisades Fire rose in the distance, Topanga Canyon neighbors helped each other out Friday morning at an improvised aid station in the Topanga Library parking lot.

Laurel Canyon is rich with music landmarks and was home to Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Alice Cooper and more during its 1960s-'70s peak.

Southern California Edison said in a news release the day after the fire started that their “distribution lines immediately to the west of Eaton Canyon were de-energized well before the reported ...