Elsewhere in L.A. County, firefighters gained the upper hand on smaller wildfires — showing how, with milder winds, the ability to drop water on flames using aircraft can play a major role in limiting ...

The Brentwood and Encino communities in Los Angeles County, which were partially evacuated Friday night as the Palisades Fire headed in a new direction, have been at the center of California’s ...

As the blaze pushed north and east with those new winds, officials called for the evacuation of Brentwood and the hills of Encino and Tarzana. Flames pushed up against established fire lines set ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an independent investigation into the loss of water pressure to local fire hydrants and the ...

The Palisades fire spread east on Friday night, causing a new evacuation order for much of the Brentwood and Encino neighborhoods.

(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Residents of Brentwood, on the eastern flank of the Palisades fire, and Encino to the north were ordered to evacuate overnight even as ...

On Thursday, Jan. 9, a Super Scooper firefighting plane was grounded after it collided with a drone illegally flying over the Palisades fire area. The aircraft, which can drop 1,600 gallons of water ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an independent investigation into the loss of water pressure to local fire hydrants and the reported unavailability of water supplies from the Santa Ynez Reservoir.