Regarding the timing so far, Ventura County Fire Chief Dustin Gardner and Miller said they understand it can be frustrating but called it fairly typical for such a fire. "Seven months is not ...

Recently, Cal Fire updated its online Mountain Fire page and listed "equipment" as the cause. The state agency, however, referred questions about the one-word description to the local fire department.

Regarding the timing so far, Ventura County Fire Chief Dustin Gardner and Miller said they understand it can be frustrating but called it fairly typical for such a fire. "Seven months is not ...

As crews were getting the upper hand on a fire that broke out near the Santa Clara River bottom in Ventura County on Monday evening, another, bigger brush fire broke out, also along the river ...

Regarding the timing so far, Ventura County Fire Chief Dustin Gardner and Miller said they understand it can be frustrating but called it fairly typical for such a fire. "Seven months is not ...

In addition to the Maria Fire in Santa Paula, the new fire, dubbed the Howe Fire, was estimated to be about 40 acres as of 7 pm, according to Ventura County Fire.

That includes victims of Southern California’s Line, Bridge and Freeway fires last September, Ventura County’s Mountain fire in November and Malibu’s Franklin fire in December.

On a new Bay Area wildfire-risk map that gauges the threat of wind-driven embers, Lars Guntvedt’s neighborhood in the hills above Los Gatos sits in the highest-danger zone. Like many of his of ...

Portions of Southern California have been warned of a risk posed by "large life-threatening wildfires" amid "unseasonably" strong winds, the National Weather Service (NWS) says. Southern California ...