A forklift fire led to a diesel fuel spill, and a hazardous materials incident, at the Port of Wilmington Thursday morning, ...

When you pass by a tanker truck on a highway, sometimes diamond-shaped cards can be seen indicating what hazardous materials they are carrying. These are called hazmat cards, which are color-coded and ...

Despite this week's rainfall in Southern California, recovery efforts continued Thursday in the Palisades and Eaton Fire burn zone -- but a plan to remove tons of hazardous waste from the area is ...

An Environmental Protection Agency on-site coordinator described the meticulous process of moving hazardous materials from ...

Fire Department says a hazmat scene from Tuesday night, Jan. 28, was cleared without major incident by Wednesday morning.

One of the biggest cleanup challenges from the Southern California fires is lithium-ion batteries, which can explode after ...

When weather experts predict dangerous wind storms, there’s funding available for fire departments to pre-deploy extra strike teams and equipment to quickly jump on the fires that may be sparked ...

According to the El Paso Fire Department, hazmat crews secured an area on Alabama Street and Fred Wilson Avenue after an eight-inch gas line ruptured. EPFD said the leak was secured at around 8:23 ...

An ammonia alarm triggered a hazmat response at an Oxnard food processing plant Tuesday morning. Just before 6:20 a.m. crews with the Oxnard Fire Department responded to the alarm at a bottling plant ...

Sent at 4:35 p.m., the message began “**Attn all personnel**” and said that the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s hazmat team reported the air in Altadena is “‘hazardous, containing ...

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