A new wildfire was reported today at 8:40 a.m. in Orange County, California. Portola Fire has been burning on private land.

“In (the Inland Empire) and urban areas of Orange County, we’re mainly concerned about street flooding.” Rain catches in the San Gabriel Mountains were already swollen with water by mid-morning.

A 13-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of setting off fireworks that sparked a wildfire this week in coastal Southern ...

Initial location: Orange County, Calif. Fire type: Wildfire. Fire name: LAC-192313. A new wildfire was reported today at 2:48 p.m. in Orange County. The wildfire has been burning on private land.

A Southern California wildfire burned 20 homes well before the normal start of the fire season. ... “This has become our norm,” Brian Fennessy, chief of the Orange County Fire Authority, ...