A firefighter with a headlamp hoses down flames as the Palisades fire ravages homes on El Medio Avenue on Tuesday. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) Santa Ana winds are infamous for driving ...

California is writing rules to limit plants around buildings to protect them from wildfires, after the Los Angeles fires a ...

Before more wildfires caused by Santa Ana winds arrive, all homeowners in fire-vulnerable areas should consider adding ember-proof screens to all their homes’ vents and any other small openings.

On a new Bay Area wildfire-risk map that gauges the threat of wind-driven embers, Lars Guntvedt’s neighborhood in the hills above Los Gatos sits in the highest-danger zone. Like many of his of ...

While authorities still don’t know what sparked the deadly fires in the Los Angeles area, they do know one clear way the flames have spread: embers. At least 24 people have died in the fires that have ...

Santa Ana winds are infamous for driving fast-moving fires in Southern California, pushing embers well beyond a blaze's boundary and into neighborhoods and across major roadways. But officials say the ...