The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of more than 249,000 minifridges because they can catch fire. The ...

This week, the Bond Fire ... hazards as normal utility-supplied electricity. It also has some additional hazards because generator users often bypass the safety devices (such as circuit breakers ...

Cal Fire reclassified 1,200 homes in Nipomo to high or very high fire hazard zones. Dispute arose after a resident said outdated vegetation data contributed to designations. No appeals process ...

The maps classify areas into moderate, high and very high hazard severity zones. Maps that more than double the local area included in fire hazard severity zones are expected to take effect in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of California on new state maps published Monday, as fire officials rush to keep up with the impacts of climate change on the Golden ...

San Diego County saw a nearly 9% decrease in acreage with “very high” fire hazard compared to 2011, Cal Fire reported this week in a release of new maps for areas under local and county fire ...

Cal Fire has released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the county. The surveys use various criteria to identify wildfire hazard areas and rank them on a three-tiered scale. The maps ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of Southern California on new state maps published Monday - the first release of its kind in 14 years - as fire officials rush to keep ...

Fire hazard has grown in Los Angeles County over the past decade, according to new state maps. What do the maps show? The Office of the State Fire Marshal found that the land area considered to ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released new fire-hazard severity maps Monday that added thousands of acres within the purview of local fire departments across ...

Anyone who's lived in a home or apartment has probably heard the terms "fuse box" or "circuit breaker" before ... dangerous like an electrical fire can occur. The unfortunate downside is that ...

You might need to get on that to ensure your home doesn't have an electrical fire ... the breakers would have tripped (and it would likely have been less dusty too). An overloaded circuit ...