Gusty north to northeast winds pushed the fire toward Interstate 5 and Ventura County. By Thursday morning, the fire was 14% contained and thousands of firefighters were assigned to the ...

Ventura residents arrested for felony arson using a drone with thermal imaging during a fire prevention operation by the ...

An electric vehicle caught fire in Ojai on Saturday, prompting evacuation and shelter-in-place orders in a nearby residential ...

An Evacuation Warning was issued for residents in the Oak Park area near Kanan Road and Agoura Road, east of Kanan Road to Deer Hill added the Ventura County Fire Department. The image below ...

February 4, 2025 – Ventura County Sheriff’s Office officials report that on February 3, 2025, Fillmore patrol deputies arrested Jose Vasquez for an arson that occurred in the City of Fillmore.

Ventura County Fire Department said forward progress of the Auto Fire stopped just after midnight Tuesday as firefighters battled the brush fire that erupted in Ventura County hours earlier.

The Auto Fire has burned nearly 61 acres in Ventura, California, a coastal city about 68 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, according to the county fire department. The blaze has was first ...

The Laguna Fire broke out Thursday morning near Laguna Road in Camarillo, prompting the evacuation of California State University, Channel Islands.

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 ...

Progress on the fire had been "significantly slowed" by 10:50 p.m. local time on Monday, Andrew Dowd, a spokesperson for the Ventura County Fire Department, told the Ventura County Star.

“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 day earlier, the Ventura County Fire Department had shifted resources in case flames made a run into local areas, Deputy Fire Chief Chad Cook said. "We have numerous folks that are actually out ...