Fire officials rescued Santa Rosa residents trapped inside a home caught in a landslide Tuesday night as storms continued to wreak havoc across the region.

As of 7 a.m. Wednesday, the Russian River in Guerneville had risen above 36 feet, entering the moderate flood stage, where ...

The Russian River and other waterways in Sonoma and Napa counties have been swollen by the atmospheric river-fueled storm, ...

Funded in 2021, the Watch Duty wildfire alert application has grown from covering three California counties to covering 1,400 counties in 22 states providing real-time emergency information to ...

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.

The 10,000-acre Hughes Fire near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic, which sent thousands fleeing this week, was more than 95% contained Sunday with all mandatory evacuation orders lifted.

Called the Hughes Fire, flames erupted around 10:30 a.m., quickly triggering evacuation orders in neighboring Los Angeles County and sending smoke billowing into local areas. Gusty north to ...

Residents who lived in the west side of Altadena did not receive an evacuation order until 3:25 a.m., which was hours after the fires first began to burn through their neighborhoods.

When the federal government in 2012 launched Wireless Emergency Alerts — a new system that allowed officials to send loud, screeching alarms to cellphones across a large area — many ...

More evacuations were ordered as another wildfire broke out in northern Los Angeles County on Wednesday. View the map below to see evacuation zones and the fire perimeter of the Hughes Fire.

TAKE YOU ABOUT 12 MINUTES. BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. LET’S GO TO L.A. COUNTY NOW, WHERE A FIRE HAS FORCED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO EVACUATE AS CREWS HAVE RUSHED IN TO TRY TO PROTECT HOMES.