The fire was being fanned by strong, dry Santa Ana winds that were racing through the area, pushing a vast pall of smoke and dangerous embers ahead of the flames -- sparking fears that it could ...

The latest blaze - dubbed the Hughes Fire - started late on Wednesday morning near Lake Castaic, around 40 miles from the Eaton and Palisades wildfires that devastated parts of LA earlier this month.

Update: As of late Thursday morning, local authorities had lifted the remaining Ventura County evacuation warnings related to the Hughes Fire. Ventura County authorities downgraded an evacuation ...

Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76 Musa Serdar Terzioglu/Anadolu via Getty Twenty children were among the 76 fatal victims of ...

Istanbul, Turkey — A fire engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 people and injuring at least 51 more, the interior minister said. Witnesses said ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday near Castaic Lake, growing to more than 10,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations. Around ...

In San Diego County, the Friars Fire erupted on Tuesday near a shopping mall, prompting immediate evacuation orders as the flames quickly spread. Southern California faces another round of extreme ...

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Turkiye has arrested nine people in connection with Tuesday’s fire at a ski resort hotel that killed 76 people. The arrests, announced by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya on Wednesday ...

ANKARA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Turkey has detained 11 people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed 79 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the Bolu mountains, Justice Minister ...

Guests said no fire alarms could be heard and there was no sign of firefighters for a long period The fire that killed 78 people at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the early hours of Monday is one of ...

Nearly a thousand people are under a mandatory evacuation order after a brush fire broke out Tuesday afternoon near Fashion Valley Mall in Mission Valley. The Friars Fire broke out just after 12: ...