Homeowners are buying and installing private fire hydrant systems to help protect their homes during wildfires.

In this month’s wind-driven wildfires in Southern California, evacuation alerts for some neighborhoods came long after homes were aflame.

The Los Angeles-area wildfires are exposing California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.

Rebuilding after recent fires brings challenges, opportunities, and a vision for a stronger, more sustainable future You can’t write a story about how long it’s gonna take to rebuild from the Palisades Fire without comparing it to the Woolsey Fire.

Reconstructing fire-ravaged neighborhoods in their former image could make residents sitting ducks for future blazes, experts say.

To be sure, there is also a special concern for Malibu’s fragile land and marine environment of “unaltered natural resources and rural characteristics,” a description from the preface of the city’s Municipal Code, which calls upon its citizens to protect and preserve these features.

The L.A. fires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.

As the deadly LA wildfires and other major emergencies have shown, alerts rely on a complicated chain of communication between first responders, government administrators, third-party companies and the public. Sometimes, the chain breaks.

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.  LOS ANGELES (AP) — When disaster strikes,

With the Southern California wildfires finally winding down, Woman’s World sits down with Woolsey survivor Tracey Bregman to talk about what comes next for those who’ve lost seemingly everything, and how we can support our loved ones.

One Malibu homeowner, who asked that her name not be printed to protect her family's privacy, is still in the process of rebuilding her home after the 2018 Woolsey Fire burned it to the ground. The fire destroyed an estimated 1,600 structures, and the rebuilding process is ongoing.

Nine days of exile, and I return to a world transformed. The acrid smell of smoke that fills my lungs is nothing compared to the heaviness in my heart. I am one of the lucky ones — my home still stands,