Firefighters made progress on the more than 10,000-acre Hughes Fire Thursday, which sent thousands fleeing after sparking near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic a day earlier.

With eight evacuations in her rearview, Ann Louise Bardach knows that wherever you go in SoCal, the one thing you can’t escape is fire.

Temperatures were gradually rising across the U.S. South, bringing hopes that the remaining snow and ice would melt away.

Overnight water drops helped stop the spread of a huge wildfire churning through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles.

Over 1,100 firefighters were “strategically pre-positioned” across Southern California to address "ongoing critical fire weather," Cal Fire said.