A mother and her son, a UCLA freshman, fought to save their house in Pacific Palisades, using a hose to keep the flames at bay while hundreds of their neighbors' homes burned.

In the wake of one of the most devastating fires in recent memory, the home of Gene and his son Patrick Golling in the Palisades Highlands neighborhood is one of the few that survived.  While many in ...

A fire broke out on the roof of a strip mall in northeast Austin early Wednesday morning.The Austin Fire Department responded ...

So Andrew pulled the heavy metal pump over to the edge of the pool and affixed a green hose that snaked down into the ash- and debris-muddied water to one opening and a long blue fire hose to another.