October 5 - 11 is Fire Prevention Week! Read the new edition of Shop Talk (pdf) to learn more about lithium ion battery safety. At William & Mary, fire safety is practiced to reduce the destruction ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection began rolling out a long-awaited update to its fire hazard severity zones Monday, which is set to more than double the number of acres in ...

A lawsuit filed Dec. 23 provides 75 examples of building plans seemingly in violation of fire safety regulations designed to ...

More than 90% of the city of Poway is designated as a moderate, high or very high Fire Hazard Severity Zone, Cal Fire reported in a release of new maps for areas under local and county fire agency ...

Montebello joined an expanding number of cities and communities in California, appearing for the first time in CalFire’s latest update of its Fire Hazard Severity Zone map released on Monday, March 24 ...

Which Santa Barbara County neighborhoods are the most flammable? Last month, Cal Fire released updated fire hazard maps for Santa Barbara and the rest of the state, showing where to beware of ...

Leaving a curling iron on or forgetting to blow out a candle are obvious no-nos when it comes to fire safety. But did you ...

Cal Fire has released new maps that identify fire-prone areas in California, and San Luis Obispo County saw an 862% increase in the number of acres included since 2011. This is large part because Cal ...

Update: EdSource revised this article Aug. 1 with additional information on which schools are located in or next to Fire Hazard Severity Zones. CalFire had provided EdSource with incomplete maps of ...