california wildfires

PG&E is holding a virtual town hall Tuesday evening to help Bay Area residents reduce wildfire risk in their communities.

PG&E is holding a virtual town hall Tuesday evening to help Bay Area residents reduce wildfire risk in their communities.

An obscure regulatory rule change two decades ago allowed utilities to keep up unused, potentially hazardous electrical systems — like the one now being investigated as sparking the Eaton fire.

National Fire Protection Association Wildfire Division Director Michele Steinberg joins Today in the Bay to discuss the Southern California wildfires and mitigation strategies for homeowners.

Twenty-five more Pacific Palisades residents who were affected by January’s deadly brush fire have joined a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over the disaster.

State fire safety officials have repeatedly warned Southern California Edison to improve weather tracking to help prevent wind-driven fire — but the utility maintained before the Eaton fire that its efforts met world standards.

State fire safety officials have repeatedly warned Southern California Edison to improve weather tracking to help prevent wind-driven fire — but the utility maintained before the Eaton fire that its efforts met world standards. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

The Eaton and Palisades fires displaced about 150,000 residents, and many remain in rentals and hotel rooms nearly two months later.

California Live’s Jessica Vilchis speaks with Francois Auroux, a longtime Palisades resident who recounts the terrifying night he escaped the fire on a bike with two paintings he had to hand off to NBC4 reporter, Robert Kovacik, live on the air.

Kristin Crowley has appealed her termination as LAFD chief to the Los Angeles City Council after she was dismissed from the position nearly a week ago by Mayor Karen Bass.

Property damage from the January wildfires in Los Angeles County, including the Eaton and Palisades fires, is estimated at between $28 billion to $53.8 billion.

California Live’s Amber Pfister visits West Hollywood with celebrity interior designer, Adam Hunter, as they walk through a warehouse that is providing essential furnishings and home goods for wildfire victims.

For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire is reassessing wildfire risk in Bay Area cities. Raj Mathai speaks with California State Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant on this.

Justin Bieber, Steve Carell and other stars laced up their skates on Sunday to support relief funds from the California wildfires.

A burned lot in Pacific Palisades sells for $1.2 million, while the reopening of Pacific Coast Highway signals the return of normalcy for residents after storms and mudslide fears.

Homeowners and renters displaced by the Los Angeles wildfires are wrestling with whether they can afford to stay in an area where housing is already out of reach for many.

How much was the ocean damaged as a recent of the wildfires in Los Angeles? That’s what scientists are trying to find out now.

A Los Angeles Fire Department member was able to escape a close call Thursday after his vehicle was swept into the ocean by fast-moving mud along Pacific Coast Highway.

An Orange County teenager’s startup will get real-world testing with plans for his wildfire-detecting sensors to soon be installed in Irvine.

A Stanford online high school student has developed a sensor that can detect a fire when it’s little more than a spark, a technology that allows firefighters to deploy before the blaze gets out of control.