according to the California Highway Patrol. Elsewhere, Castaic Union School District principals who were at a training meeting when the Hughes brush fire broke out were told to immediately return ...

Southern California is under a red flag warning ... That helped the fight against the Hughes Fire in the Castaic area north of Los Angeles, allowing helicopters to drop water, which kept it ...

Fire crews were quick to jump on the rapidly-spreading Hughes Fire, with firefighting aircraft executing water and retardant drops as the flames spread across dry brush in dangerously low humidity.

College of the Canyons announced that it has shut down both its campuses and cancelled all on-campus classes in response to the rapidly-growing Hughes Fire in ... The brush fire spread to over 5,000 ...

Even with thick smoke coming from the Hughes Fire, skies have been clear in many areas, and the air quality forecast has been good. But that doesn't tell the whole story.

As wildfires intensify and more people move to fire-prone areas, health and forestland experts are searching for ways to protect people from breathing in smoke.

Crews battled a brush fire that ignited in Castaic on Tuesday night, shutting down roads near the area. Firefighters first responded to the blaze, named the “Dry Fire,” around 9 p.m. as the ...