Firefighters have stopped forward progress of a new brush fire that broke out overnight in Ventura County. The Auto Fire ... seen evidence that electrical equipment there started the blaze.

Edison and other utilities de-energize circuits in an effort to avoid having equipment spark wildfires when dangerous fire weather is in play. As of Thursday morning, nearly 48,000 Ventura County ...

VENTURA, Calif. – Ventura County Fire Public ... and Olivas Park Rd during the fire fight. Helicopters did countless water drops in the dark. Heavy equipment, including a bulldozer went to ...

SATURDAY UPDATE: As of 8:30 a.m. Saturday, 7,023 Ventura County customers remained without power due to public safety power shutoffs, according to Edison. More than 59,000 others were being ...

As of 7 p.m. more than 37,000 residents from Newbury Park, Santa Paula and Simi Valley, among others, had no energy to their home. Outages, which began Tuesday across Southern California as Santa ...

A new blaze, 'Auto Fire' erupted in the Ventura County neighbourhood late on Monday ... Southern California Edison claims the utility’s equipment sparked the deadly Eaton Fire burning just ...

according to the Ventura County Fire Department. The blaze was measured at 55.7 acres with 0% containment. As of 6 a.m. Tuesday, crews and about a dozen pieces of equipment remained on scene ...

Edison officials have so far said they do not believe their electrical equipment was responsible ... fires — the 19,904-acre Mountain fire in Ventura County, which razed more than 240 buildings ...

Fire agencies are investigating whether electrical equipment sparked a blaze that ... In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire ignited in Ventura County. The U.S. Department of Justice also announced ...

destroying 1,063 structures and resulting in one civilian and one firefighter fatality," the Ventura County Fire Department website states. "At one point, nearly 9,000 emergency personnel were ...

into Ventura County tonight and ... inspected the lines with X-ray equipment, which is far less frequently used. A “person of interest” in the Kenneth fire who was arrested after being caught ...