California winds hamper efforts to contain fire in Simi Valley

CNN News Central’s Sara Sidner and Meteorologist Derek Van Dam examine the fight to contain a brushfire northwest of Los Angeles.

A third of National Park island home to rare wildlife has burned in spate of Southern California wildfires

A large wildfire has burned a third of Santa Rosa Island in California’s Channel Islands National Park — an area home to dozens of rare plants and animals, including some found nowhere else in the ...

Crews monitoring pressure in toxic tank, fire chief says

Crews are working to determine whether a crack in an overheating tank at a Southern California aerospace facility helped relieve pressure amid a toxic leak scare, Orange County’s interim fire chief ...