Firefighters save two homes from Route Fire
Firefighters were able to keep flames from consuming two large homes. However, the fire burned down the Warped Paintball Park and parts of a mobile home park.
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Firefighters were able to keep flames from consuming two large homes. However, the fire burned down the Warped Paintball Park and parts of a mobile home park.
Sherman Oaks residents feel neglected after nothing happens to address their ongoing safety concerns, as the owner of a burned-out business and the city continue to quarrel. Jasmine Viel reports.
The East Fire quickly grew to just under 100 acres and crews have yet to get any part of it contained.
Officials have raised the region's fire danger level as the East Fire continues to burn through the wilderness near Glendora. Nicole Comstock reports.
Crews from Cal Fire, the Angeles National Forest and the Los Angeles County Fire Department were working to extinguish the flames.
According to reports from the scene, the fire is spreading rapidly. Smoke from the fire could be seen from the 210 and 605 freeways.
The East Fire was first reported around 2:15 p.m. and was burning along Glendora Mountain Road and East Fork Road within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument.
After living in a parking lot, high school sophomore Maria Christina Benitez has a bedroom for the first time in her life. Joy Benedict reports.
According to authorities, fire crews have stopped forward progress of the fire, preventing flames from reaching nearby homes.
A big rig caught on fire after crashing on the northbound 14 Freeway near the Newhall Avenue exit.
Family and friends came together to mourn a 68-year-old woman after a fire ripped through her second-story Boyle Heights apartment. Lauren Pozen reports.
It's unclear at this moment what caused the structure to catch fire but first responders quickly put out the fire in 12 minutes.
Relatives of 42-year-old Natiesha Lewis had to use DNA to identify her since her body was so badly burned. Kandiss Crone reports.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department is battling a large fire near the 105 and 605 Freeways.
The incident began as a dispute between two brothers, one of which was armed, at about 5:40 p.m. at a home in the 2500 block of Greenfield Avenue. Authorities identified the suspect as 47-year-old Nurhan Venk on Thursday. He was being held on $1 million bail. Jasmine Viel reports.
The fire was first reported taking place at the 43800 block of Lancaster Road, near Highway 138 in Gorman.
It's unclear at this moment how the fire started but it eventually spread to nearby structures on the 15000 block of Cartwright Drive.
Karissa Finger believes that her grandparents, 81-year-old Carol and 82-year-old James Carty, died from inhaling too much smoke while trying to rescue their pets from the blaze.
According to Cal Fire officials in San Bernardino, two structures have been destroyed by the fire, with several others still threatened. An estimated 30 acres of brush is also burning.
LAFD crews quickly handled the large fire that broke out at a commercial structure in South LA early Thursday morning.
No one was injured in the blaze, and officials say there is no threat to the power supply.
The suspect was taken into custody after crawling out of the burning apartment around 9 a.m. Rina Nakano reports.
It took more than 80 firefighters a little over an hour to contain the blaze at the vacant warehouse, preventing it from spreading to nearby structures.
Crews on the ground and in the air were able to get a handle on the fire with no visible flames by 10:50 p.m.
Several helicopters flew over ground crews to help put out the fire.
