After more than two decades serving in the U.S. Marine Corps — including five years flying Marine One in support of two ...

A helicopter makes a water drop on the Mountain fire, which burned in Santa Paula and Camarillo in November. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) ...

A witness said they did not see any smoke or fire coming from the helicopter before it went down, but they heard a loud boom, ...

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials on Monday unveiled updated fire hazard maps for the High Desert and other portions of Southern California The new Cal Fire rankings ...

Cal Fire added at least 2.8 million Californians into its Fire Hazard Severity Zones. The zones, referenced in over 100 sections of code and regulation, are tied to home hardening, defensible ...

SACRAMENTO — The California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, known as Cal Fire, released its new fire hazard maps on Monday, including for Sacramento, detailing which areas have the ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report on the medical helicopter crash in ...

Cal Fire has released fire hazard severity zone maps for Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties. The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood ...

The maps, covering 15 counties in Central California, are part of Cal Fire’s two-month rollout of new hazard zones for the regions where local city and county fire departments are responsible ...

How susceptible is Sacramento County to wildfire? Residents can now check with new Cal Fire fire hazard severity zone maps released Monday to find out. This latest batch of maps detail the ...