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Wildfires

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Pacific Palisades Brush Fire Breaks Out

    LAFDThe Pacific Palisades "brusher."​Updated at the bottom: The LAFD quickly nipped this one in the bud. First posted at 12:29. Off-shore winds. "Red-flag" fire warnings. And now this: A brush fire has broken out in Pacific Palisades and was threatening at least one home. Do arsonists pay ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Santa Ana Winds Usher in L.A. Fire Season

    The winds are upon us.​It may feel cooler and more wintery outside (OK, still in the upper 60s and 70s; sorry Denver), but don't be fooled: What has the potential to be SoCal's worst fire season ever is only just now settling in. We had a few scares back in the beginning of September -- inclu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    The Return of La Cha Cha

    The winds are upon us.​It may feel cooler and more wintery outside (OK, still in the upper 60s and 70s; sorry Denver), but don't be fooled: What has the potential to be SoCal's worst fire season ever is only just now settling in. We had a few scares back in the beginning of September -- inclu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    VIDEO: Canyon Fire Lights Up Wind Farm Over Tehachapi Pass

    YouTubeEarth, wind & wildfire​The massive fire ignited by a double-fatality plane crash in Blackburn Canyon, Tehachapi, on Sunday has since raged through nearly 15,000 acres of Kern County. A dozen homes have been destroyed, and 650 more are under evacuation orders. Bakersfield Now has some in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Fourth of July 2011, Los Angeles: The Damage

    sfistHere we go again​Updated after the jump: The L.A. City Fire Department received 17 percent more calls than on a typical Fourth of July. At one point, there were 26 brush fires raging. Judging by the American flag-shaped sunburns on our foreheads and bottle-rocket scars rendering our thum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Up In Smoke: Blazing Teen Sets Brush Ablaze In Northern Los Angeles

    ​A young stoner's worst nightmare came true over the weekend when a 14-year-old allegedly sparking up some weed accidentally set a 43-acre brush fire near Saugus, sheriff's officials said. The teenager was arrested in the 21100 block of Altena Drive, an area where sheriff's officials believe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    County Urges Feds To Allow Night Firefighting From Air

    File photo​The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday urged the U.S. Forest Service to allow nighttime air attacks on brush fires. The board cited damage done and momentum gained in the first night of the deadly Station Fire in August, which ended up as the largest wildfire in coun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Station Fire Victims Twice Burned

    Ted SoquiStation Fire​One thing the recent wildfires showed us is the media's need to find villains, victims and fools during the narrative of destruction. One popular example of the last category was a pair of men living in Big Tujunga Canyon who, we were told, decided to wade out the Station Fir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    You're Burning Me Larry! Sit 'n Sleep's Wildfire Discounts

    Talk about The Burning Bed -- mattress giant Sit 'n Sleep, in effort to let Angelenos victimized by the recent wildfires sleep a little better these nights, is offering them 25-percent discounts off the stores' inventory list prices. All buyers have to do is bring proof of a fire-related insurance c ... More >>

  • News

    September 10, 2009

    War of Words Over Station Fire

    A too-modest air attack failed to stop it when firefighters still had a chance

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    All Fire, All the Time

    As firefighters slowly but stubbornly turn the tide against the Station Fire, FM radio station KPCC offers a full Web page devoted to Southern California's wildfires. The page, which fills a void left by television stations that have pretty much abandoned round-the-clock coverage of the Station Fire ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Angeles National Forest Wildfire Rages

    Google Maps/InciWebSite of Morris Fire​Many Los Angeles residents awoke this morning to blue skies whose horizons were muddied  by smoke from the Angeles National Forest wildfire 22 miles to the east. The air also bore a campfire scent. The latest wildfire broke out near Morris Dam in San Gab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Freak Wildfires Hit County

    It's bad enough when an Amtrak tour bus catches fire on I-5 and is destroyed by flames. Worse, however, would be if the blaze then sets off yet another Castaic-area wildfire -- which is what happened today. According to Associated Press, all nine bus passengers and their luggage, plus the driver, sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2008

    Update on Sayre Fire in Sylmar: Biggest Arson Investigation in Los Angeles history?

    Updated at 4:53 pm and revised number of homes burned Los Angeles police and fire officials are now floating the chilling possibility that they may find bodies inside the Oakridge Park mobile home neighborhood once they get a handle on the Sayre Fire, still only 10 percent contained. By their calcul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Sylmar fire in Los Angeles could become a "siege"

    NOTE: This post is about the Sylmar fire in October of 2008. For news on the Sylmar fire of November 15, 2008, click here. Note: 10:41 a.m. update regarding the Martin Mars amphibious craft capable of dropping thermogel. With a wall of fire hundreds of feet long in places, wind-driven smoke billow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    A New Firefighting Tool? A Canadian Company Joins the Battle to Fight Wildfires in California. President Bush Takes a Peek at the Giant of the Sky

    British Columbia resident Wayne Coulson says he has the tool that will save hundreds of homes threatened by California fires annually. It is called the Martin Mars water bomber. Owned by the Canadian company, Coulson Flying Tankers, the 162,000-pound Martin Mars can drop 7,200 gallons of water and ... More >>

  • Music

    January 24, 2008

    Low Voltage: Brushfire Records

    One of the planet's most eco-friendly studios is nestled in Larchmont Village

  • News

    December 6, 2007

    California Fire Whisperers

    Facing down region's wildfires by divining where the flames will spread

  • News

    November 1, 2007

    Air Inferiority

    Is “Run!” the new strategy against firestorms on California's urban fringe?

  • Columns

    November 1, 2007

    Like Wildfire

    Fanning the flames of hate and stupidity

  • News

    October 25, 2007

    Burn, Baby, Burn

    Beck gloats while L.A. blazes

  • Columns

    October 25, 2007

    The World on Fire

    Something wicked this way will come again

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Let It Burn

    The battle between firefighting and fire guiding

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    The World Chokes

    The battle between firefighting and fire guiding

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Bugs and Politics

    Two culprits for the Southland’s fires

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Blaming the Victims?

    Two culprits for the Southland’s fires

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    The Burning Men

    Forest fires rage in the West while politicians try to turn prevention into pork

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    Burned Again

    Bush's forestry plan courts its own disaster

  • News

    August 20, 1998

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