Taking preemptive steps to protect your home and plan your exit can reduce danger and help firefighters do their jobs, first ...

From clearing hazardous brush to using a new fire retardant, being ‘proactive’ is called crucial to ensuring residents’ ...

Representatives of MAST, a group of fire forensics and police investigators, did not immediately respond to the La Jolla Light’s request for more information. The “Gilman fire,” aided by ...

Whether it was interfering with a fire department’s critical efforts, colliding with a paraglider mid-air, or inadvertently ...

Three fires that broke out in San Diego last week started in homeless encampments, the San Diego Metro Arson Strike Team (MAST) confirmed to NBC 7 on Thursday. On Jan. 21, a brush fire on a ...

From their vantage point at San Diego Fire Station 16 atop Mount Soledad in La Jolla, fire Capt. Paul Shuttleworth and engineer James Butters had a clear view of a brush fire near Gilman Drive and ...

A brush fire erupted near UC San Diego amid ... p.m. The blaze began spreading near the intersection of Gilman Drive and Via Alicante in La Jolla shortly before 2:30 p.m. Thursday, according ...

Firefighters clear brush out of the path of a fire near Gilman Drive and Via Alicante in La Jolla on Jan. 23. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune) However, the chaotic evacuation of the UC ...

the Center Fire in Rancho Bernardo and the Gilman Fire in La Jolla, according to MAST Capt. Pat Buckley. On Jan. 21, a brush fire on a hillside across from Fashion Valley Mall in Mission Valley ...