Photos taken of the Hughes Fire around Castaic Lake, California captured the massive blaze and cloud of smoke visible from ...

Firefighters are working to contain a new wildfire, dubbed the Hughes Fire, which exploded east of Lake Castaic in northern ...

Southern California is under a red flag warning for critical fire risk after the Hughes Fire broke out late on Wednesday ...

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Thousands of inmates at a Castaic jail complex were kept sheltered ... were prepared to keep inmates safe from fire and posted images of buses, apparently on stand-by in case evacuations were ...

The Hughes Fire has burned more than 9,000 acres Wednesday around the Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County on Wednesday continuing a devastating wave of Southern California wildfires fueled by dry ...