Ventura County Supervisor Kelly Long said they had enough water to douse Mountain fire, but not enough infrastructure.

The fire began threatening some communities just west of Castaic in Ventura County later on Wednesday ... with support from aircraft and dozers, fought aggressively and were challenged by extreme ...

Laguna Fire initially started 9:41 a.m. Jan. 23 in Ventura County. It has burned 83 acres after being active for three days. As of Sunday evening, the fire crew successfully encircled the entire ...

Gusty north to northeast winds pushed the fire toward Interstate 5 and Ventura County. By Thursday morning, the fire was 14% contained and thousands of firefighters were assigned to the blaze.

The LA County Fire Department has a fleet of these dozers that are kept ready to spring into action 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Operators must have some 5,000 hours of stick time in order to ...

So Ventura County Fire had staffed up ten additional fire engines, water tenders, dozers, aviation assets, hand crews, as well as management and overhead staff to be able to help manage an ...

Evacuations were ordered on the Cal State Channel Islands campus Thursday morning when a brush fire broke out in the Camarillo area in Ventura County. Firefighters and water-dropping aircraft ...

Update: As of late Thursday morning, local authorities had lifted the remaining Ventura County evacuation warnings related to the Hughes Fire. Ventura County authorities downgraded an evacuation ...

LATEST Jan. 23, 8:45 a.m. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern ... lifting warnings in Ventura County and downgrading one zone from an order to a warning. Planes have dropped around ...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. – The approximately 10,396-acre Hughes Fire burning northeast of Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County has created smoke plumes visible in parts of Ventura ...