Wildfires like the Los Angeles blazes destroy so much, but they often spare some evidence of the cause of their ignition

As deadly wildfires devastated a wide area of Los Angeles in early 2025, social media posts claimed that directed energy weapons ignited the blazes -- a conspiracy theory shared around similar disasters.

Los Angeles is in the midst of battling multiple wildfires. FOX Business takes a look at some of America's most costly wildfires.

Footage of a firefighting plane picking up water from the Pacific Ocean to beat back the wildfires currently burning in Los Angeles has only added fuel to a debate taking place among onlookers on

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted last week and roared across the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of homes and killing at least 27 people ...

Wildfires have decimated more than 40,000 acres of the Los Angeles metropolitan area over the last week, charring more than 12,000 structures, displacing over 150,000 residents and leaving at ...

That has led to an outbreak of devastating wildfires, one of which, a fire burning in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, is already the most destructive in the modern history of Los Angeles. The high winds have made it difficult enough for the ...

Such are the scenes across Los Angeles County, where fires ignited last week and continued to spread over the weekend in what has become one of the largest and most destructive urban conflagrations in U.

For those who plan to rebuild, a natural question has emerged: What can be done differently to prevent the sort of destruction that has killed at least 24 people, leveled thousands of structures and inflicted untold billions in damage?

Fire safety experts warn that you may have as little as two minutes to escape a burning home. It’s not often that one imagines their family gathering their most important belongings, grabbing their go-bags,

John Hope Bryant writes about how the solutions—creative, bold, and compassionate—to this devastating crisis are in our hands.

I have friends who lost houses. I have family who were burned out of their home. Los Angeles has lost churches, synagogues, and architecture that are part of our collective history—not just architectural gems, but civic hubs and touchstones for communal memory.