Southern Fire initially started today at 9:59 a.m. in San Diego County, California. It has burned one acre of private land after being active for less than an hour. Currently, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it remains undetermined.

Laguna Beach police said they identified the suspect as a 13-year-old boy, who was arrested on suspicion of felony reckless burning of forest land.

A 13-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of setting off fireworks that sparked a wildfire this week in coastal Southern California, forcing the evacuations of about a hundred canyon homes.

The Wolf Fire was just one of a spate of smaller-sized fires in the Inland Empire over the past two weeks, often near fast-growing residential areas. Hundreds of thousands of new housing units have been added in the wildland-urban interface in Riverside and San Bernardino counties over the past two decades,

A quickly growing brush fire in Southern California has spread at least 2,400 acres, prompting evacuations, according to fire officials.

A rapidly spreading wildfire in Southern California quickly became the state’s largest fire of the year after igniting on Wednesday, leading to evacuations.

Questions linger about whether many of the displaced will return to communities. Also, is the soil healthy? Is the air clean?

Three wildfires surround Dr. Karen Jakpor’s Southern California home and she doesn’t know where to go.. Even though fire lines are miles away, smoke billows down the mountains into the hills ...

The Eaton and Palisades fires in January caused an unprecedented level of destruction, killing at least 30 people, destroying more than 16,000 homes in L.A. County and leaving a burn zone 2½ times the size of New York’s Manhattan. Two weeks into peak fire season, wildfires are spreading in California. Officials say it’s just the beginning.