Containing wildfires—never mind extinguishing them—in parched and windy conditions can be monstrously difficult. Dry vegetation is rocket fuel for blazes and wind both feeds the flames and spreads the ...

Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out "the hills and ... down California's mountains, it heats up ...

As another round of wild Santa Ana winds ... history of Los Angeles County. The National Weather Service said powerful winds will blow from the Great Basin in Nevada through mountain and canyon ...

The blaze, dubbed the Auto Fire, was first reported in the Santa Clara River bottom around 6:50 p.m. local time as Santa Ana winds ... return to the skies Tuesday morning, Los Angeles County ...

Blindsided as Los Angeles has been, some of this was entirely foreseeable. On the whole, Gershunov says, the Los Angeles area absorbs five batterings by Santa Ana winds every December and four or ...