LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley defended her decision not to deploy additional firefighters ahead of the blazes despite warnings of dangerous conditions.

As the federal investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives begin to lay out their 3 foot-by-3 foot squares with sticks and string surrounding the ignition point of ...

Critical fire weather is expected to continue until Wednesday at the earliest, increasing the risk that fires will spread further.

BakerHostetler announces that Dettelbach, former ATF director, will rejoin our firm in April. He returns after two-plus years as head of the nation’s only federal agency dedicated to protecting ...

Steven Dettelbach, who stepped down from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on Jan. 17, returns to BakerHostetler after more than two years as ATF director. He will join ...

In this case, it seems the "combination of ferocious winds and a parched landscape created ideal conditions for the fast-moving fires." While "copycat arson" is a known phenomenon and experts admit arsonists may have begun smaller fires that followed the Palisades blaze and the similarly destructive Eaton Fire (now 98% contained) in Pasadena,

The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with computer scientists to create tools that can find answers.

Shifting positions: Trump administration officials continued to reverse or revise the government’s stance on multiple fronts, including active Supreme Court cases, Jan. 6 prosecutions, school book bans, foreign aid programs and gender definitions. Mr. Trump also reinstated a Republican anti-abortion policy known as the “Mexico City Rule.”

Dozens of people are believed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have burned down whole swaths of communities

The backstory: According to a recent study, authorities never find the source of ignition for more than half of all of wildfires in the Western U.S. — a knowledge gap that can hamper prevention efforts even as climate change ramps up the frequency of these deadly events.

Fire investigators are looking at a hiking area called Skull Rock as the potential point of origin for the destructive Palisades fire, which erupted on Jan. 7.

CBS News anchor Jonathan Vigliotti and producer Christian Duran rescuing the dogs, Alma, Archie, and Hugo, from a Pacific Palisades home