VENTURA, Calif. — A brush fire that erupted northwest of Los Angeles on Wednesday has burned more than 14,000 acres, engulfing homes, prompting rescues, and forcing power shutoffs to thousands ...

Los Angeles County Fire Department firefighters battled a Malibu brush fire that reached 50 acres Wednesday morning, and just around noon, it was reported that crews had the blaze under control.

Update: A more recent report on the Mountain Fire includes details of Thursday’s new evacuations. A Ventura County wildfire that ignited on a day of red-flag warnings across California has ...

Santa Ana winds have so far kept fixed wing firefighting aircraft on the ground, Ventura County Fire Department officials said, preventing them from water- and retardant-dropping operations.

A brush fire quickly grew to nearly 20,000 acres in the hills above Moorpark and Camarillo in Ventura County. The Mountain Fire, reported around 9 a.m. Wednesday off the 118 Freeway near Balcom ...

The agency said its final rule on the two highly toxic chemicals address implementation concerns from a range of industry sectors. EPA extended the phase-out deadlines for two highly toxic but ...

Exposure to organophosphate esters (OPEs)—chemicals found in everyday products that use plastics and flame retardants—during ... to higher levels of dibutyl phosphate and di-isobutyl phosphate ...

Four people were hospitalized after escaping a boat fire that erupted off the Long Beach coast Friday evening, authorities said. At 7:11 p.m., Long Beach Fire Department officials received a call ...

The strikes set off a fire that affected the dialysis unit, destroyed water tanks, damaged the surgery building and injured four medics trying to extinguish the blaze, said the hospital’s ...

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.