Aerial firefighters have always been a critical line of defense against raging wildfires. But increasingly extreme blazes and ...

For a time, California's insurance system was maybe workable. Big, destructive fires used to be rarer, so the insurance ...

An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

Latest news and live updates on the Pacific Palisades brush fire in California as evacuations and road closures are underway.

The ongoing fire currently devastating the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles is now the most destructive in the ...

The Palisades, Eaton and Hurst wildfires raging in Southern California will be fueled by peak winds of 100 mph, placing 19 million people at risk ... a yellow lab, and Maeve, a cat — before ...

As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but dangerous phenomenon in which wildfires create their own weather. The National ...

The National Weather Service's warning about the “particularly dangerous situation” in which any new fire could explode in size in the Los Angeles area didn’t mention fire tornadoes ...

A researcher describes the destructive power of the fires in Los Angeles, particularly the formation of fire tornadoes or fire whirls that can reach very high wind speeds. (AP Video: Rodrique Ngowi.) ...

Across the country from the California wildfires, researchers in Massachusetts are working to recreate a smaller-scale version of the phenomenon in a lab where it ... “but then the tornado aspect or ...

Across the country from the California wildfires, researchers in Massachusetts are working to recreate a smaller-scale version of the phenomenon in a lab ... tornado aspect or the high winds add ...

In the lab in Worcester, researchers have created small fire tornadoes by putting up walls around a fire or arranging a bunch of little fires that together restrict airflow. But that's on a much ...