Evacuation orders were issued for high-risk properties near recent wildfire burn areas in Los Angeles County due to the threat of flooding and debris flows from a mid-November storm. The mandatory evacuation orders were for “select vulnerable properties,

Around 24 million people across California are under flood watches Friday morning as Los Angeles braces for what could be a month's worth of rain in a day.

A new wildfire was reported today at 9:44 p.m. in Los Angeles County, California. The wildfire has been burning on private land. At this time, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it is still undetermined.

An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river is dousing Southern California. More than four inches of rain fell over coastal Santa Barbara County early Friday as the storm moved south toward Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles City Council confirmed Jaime Moore as the new Los Angeles County Fire Department chief.

LA County is investigating State Farm for possible Unfair Competition Law breaches in handling Eaton and Palisades wildfire claims.

Jaime Moore said that bringing in an outside group to investigate the LAFD’s handling of the Jan. 1 Lachman fire, which later reignited into the Palisades fire, will be one of his first moves as chief.

An unusually strong storm system is dousing Southern California, raising concerns about rockslides and debris flows in wildfire-damaged areas.

A “belligerent” man was found up a tree by emergency crews responding to a house fire in the Elysian Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles early Friday morning, police said. Heavy fire was reported at a single-family home in the 2300 block of Fernleaf Street around 2:15 a.