High temperatures warmed quickly in response to the dry and downsloping wind in the Foothills and the Piedmont Triad. Gusty ...

The warmer temperatures and high winds are again causing several fires in our area. One of those fires happened in Wayside.

Original: A brush fire erupted in Castaic, sending smoke over the Santa Clarita Valley. Around 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, first ...

They’re burning because of the Santa Ana winds and high temperatures with low humidities ... Is the loss of life and homes really due to a brush fire? When a wildland fire is burning, no ...

Roaring flames, wind-whipped embers and the smoking remains of homes have filled newscasts, websites and social media over the last two weeks. The fires that have destroyed 12,000 structures and ...

the Sumner Grade fire near Bonney Lake destroyed two homes, burned 500 acres and forced the evacuation of hundreds. It, too, started in brush during a period of high temperatures and windy ...

Flammable brush, dried out by lack ... It's why the Los Angeles Fire Department has set up special parking restrictions. On "red flag days," when high winds trigger a formal alert from forecasters ...

Flammable brush ... hotter temperatures, was ready to burn. So were densely packed houses, which spread the flames into urban areas. Los Angeles has one of the most experienced fire fighting ...

A climate scientist discusses how to think about and weigh the variables that led to the current disaster.

an abundance of dry brush, low humidity and high temperatures. It was fully contained by Nov. 20. The Bel Air Fire of 1961 began as a brush fire in the tony Los Angeles community of the same name ...

Vasya Tremsin, a (then) high school senior from the San Francisco Bay Area, came up with a crazy idea for a science fair ...