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A fire that started Dec. 4 near Ventura has destroyed hundreds of homes and threatened thousands more. Driven by Santa Ana winds, the Thomas fire was 15% contained Monday afternoon. Sources ...

Power lines owned by Southern California Edison sparked the Thomas Fire, according to a report released Wednesday by the Ventura County Fire Department. The origin of the fire was on private ...

Steve Swindle of the Ventura County Fire Department. “The scale of it was beyond belief,” he said. “It was just massive.” Fire may prompt changes: Thomas Fire conditions ’beyond a ...

Flames as tall as a high-rise galloping up and down mountainsides. Coastal communities shrouded in smoke. Armies of firefighters on the defensive with little hope of corralling a wildfire that ...

The Thomas fire started Monday night ... quickly through the region north of Los Angeles, according to the Ventura County Fire Department. Since then, it's been joined by four additional fires.

Ventura County’s Thomas Fire started Monday night and grew exponentially to nearly 50,000 acres, resulting in evacuation of at least 27,000 people. The fire was zero percent contained Tuesday ...

A Ventura mental health hospital is among the more than 150 structures in southern California that have been destroyed by the rampant Thomas Fire. Vista del Mar Hospital officials were forced to ...

MONTECITO, Calif. -- New evacuation orders have been issued in Santa Barbara County on Saturday, as the Thomas Fire continues to expand.[br /][br /]In the city of Santa Barbara evacuations were ...

Another round of high Santa Ana winds is forecast for next week in the Ventura County area, the weather service said. The Mountain Fire is just south of the area of the Thomas Fire, which started ...