The fire commissioners are appointed by the mayor and are supposed to provide civilian oversight for the Fire Department. But during critical discussions about the Palisades fire, the commissioners ...

'What is missing is a trained volunteer crew that can be assigned in shifts to monitor 24/7 for many days at a time,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

Firefighters Saturday stopped the forward progress of a grass fire that was burning near homeless encampments in the Pico-Union community of Los Angeles. Firefighters dispatched at 11:23 a.m. Saturday ...

Firefighters Saturday knocked down a small fire on the first floor of a two-story vacant home in the Pico-Union community of Los Angeles, authorities said. Firefighters dispatched at 8:06 am. Saturday ...

Here is a sampling of things to do in the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area. Today The Wall That Heals – Vietnam Veterans Memorial Replica: The three-quarter scale replica of the ...

A person was killed and another person was critically injured this morning in a three-vehicle crash on the 110 Freeway in ...

A fire broke out Friday morning at a metal scrap yard in the Central-Alameda area of Los Angeles, but no injuries were reported. Crews responded at 11:23 a.m. to a large metals fire in the outside ...

An early Monday stabbing inside a Canoga Park apartment complex spiraled into a tense barricade situation before officers ...

A pre-dawn collision near the Third Street on-ramp left one person dead and another fighting for their life — on a stretch of highway that practically wrote the rulebook on dangerous design.

A person was killed and another person was critically injured Sunday morning in a three-vehicle crash on the Harbor (110) Freeway in downtown Los Angeles, where a vehicle overturned and caught fire, ...