The Los Angeles County Fire Department has placed an order with Sikorsky for two additional S-70i Firehawk firefighting ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to implement a set of recommendations aimed at improving emergency alerts and evacuations in the aftermath of January’s megafires. In a lengthy and ...

County Supervisor Kathryn Barger conceded this week that county fire department was responsible for "a gap" between when evacuation alerts were needed and actually ordered.

Each new disaster feels uniquely terrible. And each time a fast-moving wildfire strikes Southern California, we’re often surprised by the devastation. But the conditions that drive many of the worst ...