“We were sitting ducks,” said Sarah Kamdar, a Pacific Palisades resident who was among those fleeing on foot as fire exploded through their community Jan. 7. Without an evacuation plan or ...

More than 31,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, and another 23,000 are under evacuation warnings, LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said.Around 10,176 acres had burned as of 10 p.m., Cal Fire ...

Cal Fire said the fire poses a potential threat to life and/or property. Evacuation orders and warnings remain active. Areas impacted by evacuation orders include Lower Otay Reservoir, John Nichol ...

All 17 people who died in the Eaton fire lived in an area where evacuation orders came hours later than others, even as homes nearby were already burning. Some people never received warnings at all.

7, those on the town’s west side did not receive evacuation orders until 3:25 a.m. the next morning, according to the Los Angeles Times. All of the victims from the Eaton Fire were located on ...

Residents said they were stunned how long it took to get the evacuation order, and by then many homes in the area were on fire. Of the 17 deaths confirmed so far in the fire, all of them occurred ...

The aerial water drops prompted evacuation orders to lift Thursday for tens of thousands of people. There was no growth overnight to the fire and crews were jumping on flareups to keep the flames ...

The 10,000-acre Hughes Fire near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic, which sent thousands fleeing this week, was more than 50% contained Friday with all mandatory evacuation orders lifted.