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FILE - Residents evacuate on a motorcycle amid wildfires into Vina del Mar, Chile, Feb. 3, 2024. Scientists say climate change creates conditions that make the drought and wildfires now hitting South America more likely. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

How climate change contributes to wildfires like Chile’s

Amid deadly wildfires in Chile, scientists say climate change makes heat waves and drought hitting South America more likely. Both contribute to fires.

Feb. 6, 2024

A house sits alone as the Lake Fire creeps its way up the hill towards Palmdale Friday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

As climate hazards converge, more Californians are living in harm’s way

Feb. 3, 2024

JANESVILLE, CALIF. - AUG. 189 2021. A firefighter is dwarfed by the plume of the Dixie Fire, which has burned more than 1,100 square miles, destroyed 659 homes and is only about 30 percent contained. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Former criminology professor pleads guilty to igniting four wildfires in 2021

Feb. 2, 2024

GREENVILLE, CA - AUGUST 07, 2021: Burned trees rise above a truck destroyed by the Dixie Fire in the town of Greenville. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

PG&E penalized $45 million in Dixie fire settlement with CPUC

Jan. 26, 2024

Two men were seriously injured in a Hollywood house fire when they were unable to escape through a locked security gate. Firefighters responded to a fire at North Cherokee Avenue just after 3:30 a.m., flames were already visible from outside the one-story, single-family home, on January 17, 2024.

Security gate traps 2 in massive Hollywood house fire; 1 firefighter injured

Jan. 17, 2024

Maui’s economy needs tourists. Can they visit without compounding wildfire trauma?

Dec. 29, 2023

10 books to add to your reading list in January

Dec. 29, 2023

Navy awards $6-million contract for cleanup of World War II hangar in Tustin that burned

Dec. 22, 2023

With a rescue team scaling back in Orange County, who will save horses from the next wildfire?

Dec. 21, 2023

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