Newly-released text messages and depositions from California State Parks staffers offer details of state actions and ...

The newly created U.S. Wildland Fire Service (USWFS) has hired its inaugural leader: Brian Fennessy, Chief of the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) in Southern California. Fennessy has nearly 50 ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- We're getting new insights into the communications of firefighters who battled the Lachman Fire, a blaze that we now know smoldered underground and turned in the deadly Palisades ...

Brian Fennessy, Chief of Orange County Fire Authority. Photo by Bill Gabbert. Brian Fennessy has told his colleagues at the Orange County Fire Authority that he is retiring as head of the agency in ...

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A kind of soft reset happens in two characters' lives in this week's episode of Fire Country, airing on Friday, December 12, 2025. Bode (Max Thieriot) meets a former acquaintance who might turn out to ...

Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) Chief Brian Fennessy will retire on January 2, 2026, to become the inaugural Director of the newly established United States Wildland Fire Service (USWFS). The new ...

Early signs suggest that Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades was the result of negligence, poor decisions and circumstance. This photo offers telling clues of how hazardous materials helped turn homes ...

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