New questions are being raised about whether the City of Los Angeles and its fire department did enough to prepare in the days ahead of the deadly Palisades Fire.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau has released the identities of at least 17 people who are still at-risk, missing since the start of the wildfires in Southern California. A total of 31 missing person cases are still actively being investigated.

The American Red Cross in Connecticut said it's deployed one person to California as massive wildfires continue to burn neighborhoods.

In Los Angeles, where fire has destroyed thousands of homes, officials say they don’t need any more items like blankets or clothing. What’s needed is money to

Days after losing her home in the same fire that destroyed her Los Angeles elementary school, third-grader Gabriela Chevez-Muñoz resumed classes this week at another campus temporarily hosting children from her school.

Wildfires are tearing through thousands of acres in the Los Angeles area, killing at least two people and forcing families to flee.

Connecticut relief organization Americares Thursday announced plans to offer support to health care providers as they respond to historic wildfires devastating the Los

– Two national reviews – one by a blue-ribbon commission and the other by the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council – investigated the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. This disaster killed 11 workers, seriously injured 16 others and released an estimated 134 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

The sports organizations and Fanatics will donate all proceeds from the initiative to the American Red Cross and Los Angles Fire Department Foundation.

Mercy Chefs, a Virginia-based nonprofit specializing in disaster relief, is on the ground in LA County distributing meals to victims, volunteers, firefighters and other first responders. Mercy Chefs also continues to serve meals in western North Carolina since the region was devastated by Hurricane Helene in late September.

State authorities previously listed the Palisades as one of the five Southern California areas with the highest concentration of potential wildfire risks. The community also is among the areas most impacted by an unavailability of insurance coverage.

The role of inmate firefighters is in the spotlight as crews continue to battle the blazes in Southern California.