SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.-Since Santa Barbara Foothills Community Wildfire Protection Plan is a mouthful it is being ...

Wildfires are a serious threat, and residents in fire-prone areas should be prepared to evacuate quickly. Having an emergency plan, knowing evacuation routes, and preparing a "go-bag" with ...

A Washington Post analysis shows that some officials knew of the fire’s westward spread hours ... to reach residents or an established evacuation plan, according to Dorothy Wong, who represents ...

Evacuating the Tahoe basin in summer could take 14 hours, and 99% of properties are at risk — yet new developments are built in high-danger fire areas.

Every fire incident tells a story. It tells of lives interrupted, dreams shattered, and properties reduced to ash. In Nigeria, the headlines are all too frequent: residen­tial homes engulfed in flames ...

The plan limited construction in Altadena’s fire-prone foothills and simultaneously ... managed retreat only once it’s too late, for example by buying out homes that flood repeatedly, but ...