As wildfires burn the landscape, they prime slopes for debris flows: powerful torrents of rock, mud and water that sweep downhill with deadly momentum.

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After wildfires swept through Los Angeles, California, on January 7, 2025, an old clip from 2017 recirculated online in various languages with a false claim that it shows a man rescuing a rabbit from ...

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The Palisades Fire burned the public library at Pacific Palisades to the ground. The Palisades Fire, along with the other wildfires in Southern California ... unfair act’ Map Shows Chinese ...

See maps of where evacuation orders and warnings are in place for three wildfires burning in the Los Angeles area.

Thomas is a former ... Fighting Fire in a Transformed World.” A few years ago, when I was part of a crew fighting a series of large wildfires in California’s wilderness, my bosses told me, ...

The 2017 Thomas Fire, one of the largest fires in state history, was sparked by Southern California Edison power lines that came into contact during high wind, investigators determined.

can be triggered by fires that destabilize the ground below. In January 2018, a month after the 280,000-acre Thomas Fire ripped through Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, heavy rain loosened mud ...

This Cal Fire map shows the Hughes Fires location and areas that are under mandatory orders, which are marked in red, and areas under warnings, which are in yellow. Captain Sheila Kelliher with ...

The 2017 Thomas Fire, one of the largest fires in state history, was sparked by Southern California Edison power lines that came into contact during high wind, investigators determined.