DEADLY wildfires are sweeping across Spain and France with hotels and popular beach bars being immediately evacuated.

SoCal Edison and LADWP are starting to put power lines underground, but they’ll need the community on board to do it.

BC Wildfire Service data show a blaze south of Lytton that has triggered multiple evacuation alerts is three times its original estimated size and continues to burn out of control.

Researchers from UCLA set up 20 monitors from Topeka State Park through Brentwood and Santa Monica to detect both large and small particles in the air.

California officials are concerned the state's wildfire fund could be drained if utilities begin tapping it to cover fire-related claims.