Meanwhile, others have blamed LA Mayor Karen Bass for cutting the city's fire department budget. BBC Verify looked into the facts behind the political fallout. In a social media post on Saturday ...

Officials detailed on Wednesday morning how the fires had strained the city's water supply, asking residents to conserve water usage and noting that water quality diminished as the system was ...

He was looking for his cast-iron pans in the hope they might have survived the blaze, one of several historic fires burning in ... rushed back when he heard the news, only to find his corner ...

There is some good news here. Lighter winds are forecast to develop after Wednesday bringing a longer window than we've seen so far, for fire fighters to contain the remaining blazes. I've just ...

With fires still burning across Southern California, Los Angeles residents forced to flee their homes have started to return to their neighborhoods, many of them rendered unrecognizable ...

Since the flames erupted in and around Los Angeles, scores of residents have returned to their still smoldering neighborhoods even as the threat of new fires persisted and the nation’s second ...

I thought we'd be safe here, but with six active fires ... the news from a neighbour that our house had made it through the night. I cried with relief. Image source, Lucy Sherriff / BBC When ...

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American technology journalist Taylor Lorenz has been speaking about the role TikTok has played in keeping people in LA up to date during the fires. Lorenz, who appeared on the BBC News channel ...

Nearly 1,000 incarcerated men and women have joined the frontlines in a battle against record-breaking wildfires burning across southern California. The number deployed - now 939 - are part of a ...

At almost that exact moment, a fire erupted in the Palisades neighbourhood ... That's something we are seeing across the globe." BBC InDepth is the new home on the website and app for the best ...