Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading flames, but fire-resistant landscaping helps. It ...

Stately palm trees, lining neighborhoods, are a defining emblem of Los Angeles. The two trees are among the most notorious of non-native plants that are highly flammable. In a fire they can go up ...

Around the world, other communities are experimenting with ideas that Los Angeles could borrow as it rebuilds from disastrous ...

Investigators believe a Christmas tree caught fire before flames spread through a home in the Granada Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles Tuesday night. The fire was reported around 10:45 p.m. at the ...

Many posted the clip and claimed that the location of the video was in Los Angeles, California. In the footage, a man who was wearing a sweatshirt (hoodie) was caught next to a palm tree and he ...

A Los Angeles homeowner was left horrified after ... woke up on Monday to reports that someone had tried to start a fire with a palm tree in his neighborhood on Fuller Street around 6:30am. ' ...

Dramatic moments were caught on live TV after a palm tree in front of a house on Vista Street caught fire from a flying ember amid the Sunset Fire. The residents of the house were not home ...