Alyce McFadden, a reporting fellow on The Times’s Metro desk, writes about what covering a disaster for the first time brought home to her.

On Wednesday, Jan. 22, the Hughes fire broke out in Castaic amidst the red flag warning, spreading to over 9,000 acres by Wednesday evening as dry and windy weather affected the area. Elsewhere in ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday near Castaic Lake, growing to more than 10,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations. Around ...

The Hughes Fire has burned more than 9,000 acres Wednesday around the Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County on Wednesday continuing a devastating wave of Southern California wildfires fueled by dry ...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Residents south and west of Lake Castaic scrambled to flee the path of the Hughes Fire, which had scorched over 5,000 acres in less than three hours on Wednesday.

A new fire exploded Wednesday north of Castaic, charring more than 10,000 acres and forcing thousands to flee their homes amid a month of extreme fire conditions that have plagued Southern California.

CASTAIC, Calif. (KABC) -- Smoke from the Hughes Fire shrouded a neighborhood near Castaic Lake Wednesday, making the atmosphere appear like night sky in the early afternoon hours. The intersection ...

Your life depends on it.” But for the 4,700 inmates at the facilities in the Castaic jail complex — all of which were in an evacuation zone by midafternoon — that would be impossible.

Evacuations were ordered for the approximately 10-acre fire burning in Sepulveda Pass as well as the brush fire that grew at an alarming rate in the hills near Castaic north of Los Angeles on a ...