Smith is the author of “Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and ... was much smaller than the area hit by the Eaton fire in Los Angeles this month, it was far more densely settled.

Anthony was a great-grandfather of 10 who used a wheelchair ... inside his Altadena home on Tonia Ave. during the Eaton Fire, the Los Angeles Medical Examiner announced.

Los Angeles is battling another week of high ... That’s a burn area 315 times larger than that of the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, which burned down the city’s business district and spawned ...

Building a more resilient Los Angeles will require a government refocused on efficiently providing critical infrastructure ...

Besides burning the most urban area, the Eaton and Palisades fires are the largest ever for California in January. Alexandra Syphard, a senior research scientist at the Conservation Biology Institute, ...

The experiences of those who rebuilt after the 2017 wildfires in northern California offer a template for Los Angeles area ...

These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving story of the United States.

The tinderbox Though separated by nearly 150 years, the “Great Fire of 1881″ in Michigan shares striking similarities with the fires still burning across Los Angeles, Snyder said. In both ...

As firefighters continue their attempts to quell the series of destructive fires that broke out across Los Angeles County last week, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate, it's important ...

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban ... (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File) The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 burned about 3.3 square miles of the downtown area of the city ...