What the closure covers: The closure starts at Las Flores State Beach to Santa Monica State Beach and will stay in effect until further notice, according to the L.A. County Department of Public Health. Officials are cautioning beachgoers to avoid contact with water or sand around the areas, as well as any fire debris they may come across.

Homeowners are buying and installing private fire hydrant systems to help protect their homes during wildfires.

He’s here at sunrise, for the 10th morning in a row, to get the latest updates on the fire and to assign his crew tasks for the day. When the Woolsey Fire tore through our hometown in 2019, it devastated our community and claimed over 1,

Rebuilding after recent fires brings challenges, opportunities, and a vision for a stronger, more sustainable future You can’t write a story about how long it’s gonna take to rebuild from the Palisades Fire without comparing it to the Woolsey Fire.

The Los Angeles-area wildfires are exposing California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.

Reconstructing fire-ravaged neighborhoods in their former image could make residents sitting ducks for future blazes, experts say.

Lucy Walker 2021 documentary about California wildfires, “Bring Your Own Brigade,” debuted at Sundance during COVID but is currently available on Paramount+.

To be sure, there is also a special concern for Malibu’s fragile land and marine environment of “unaltered natural resources and rural characteristics,” a description from the preface of the city’s Municipal Code, which calls upon its citizens to protect and preserve these features.

In 1955, the Ventu Park wildfire raged through the canyons above Malibu, burning nearly 14,000 ... This century those hills saw the Woolsey fire, one of the most destructive burns in California history. The Franklin fire, which scorched the hills just ...

More than 750 tidewater gobies were rescued from a Malibu lagoon scorched by the Palisades fire. Seared watersheds can take years to recover, experts say

As fires have raged, so have citations of the prescient author Mike Davis. But in a changed world, we need new thinkers too.

They either have a death wish, they’re stupid, or there’s something else going on that we don’t understand. But we want the water that they’re