Ventura County Supervisor Kelly Long said they had enough water to douse Mountain fire, but not enough infrastructure.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Ventura County Fire Department's Public Information Officer Andrew Dowd shared how they're preparing for this week's strong Santa Ana wind event. He emphasized the ...

First discovered: 4:56 a.m. Feb. 3 A new wildfire was reported today at 4:56 a.m. in Ventura County. River Fire has been ...

VENTURA, Calif. – Ventura County Fire Public Information Officer Andrew Dowd said up-staffing and mutual aid helped firefighters from Ventura County, Ventura, and Oxnard stop a fire from growing ...

Evacuations were ordered on the Cal State Channel Islands campus Thursday morning when a brush fire broke out in Ventura ...

“This weekend my wife and I were going through our house and looking at what we would bring with us,” Andrew Dowd, the public information officer for the Ventura County Fire ...

a new blaze broke out in neighboring Ventura County Monday night. The Auto Fire has burned nearly 61 acres in Ventura, California, a coastal city about 68 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles ...

"The fire has been mapped at 55.7 acres with 0 percent containment," a Ventura County Fire Department spokesperson said.

Auto Fire was ultimately mapped at 61 acres and as of Friday afternoon it was 100% contained, according to Andrew Dowd, a firefighter and spokesperson for the Ventura County Fire Department.

After a week of fires sweeping across LA County, fueled by high winds and low humidity, some blazes have been contained, while others are still continuing to burn at less than 50 percent containment.

Evacuations were ordered on the Cal State Channel Islands campus Thursday morning when a brush fire broke out in the Camarillo area in Ventura County. Firefighters and water-dropping aircraft ...