Santa Maria and Santa Barbara County have sent firefighting resources to Los Angeles to help fight disastrous wind-fueled wildfires that have been raging since Tuesday.

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department is improving the current Mobile Data Computer program with the Phase-1 rollout of new computer tablets and the Tablet Command application for the Department’s ...

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department is improving its Mobile Data Computer program with a phased rollout of new computer tablets to improve command and control during emergency incidents.

Vegetation fires seem to be sparking every day, but a new addition to the Santa Maria Air Tanker Base is helping local fire agencies extinguish blazes quickly.

A federal incident command team is taking over the Alisal Fire response Wednesday evening, said Woody Enos, incident commander of Santa Barbara County’s Type 3 incident management team.

The SLO County Sheriff’s Office is asking people to stay away from the riverbed area in Paso Robles.

The Santa Barbara Police department now has a mobile command unit, and the funding in part, came from community donations. The large, motor home style vehicle was presented inside the Santa ...

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department received a mobile command center last year. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department is slated to get a mobile unit this summer.

Central Coast residents remember the one-year anniversary of the Montecito and Carpinteria mudslides in Santa Barbara County, California, that resulted in mass evacuations and 23 deaths.

Roughly 22 percent of those calls are for emergency medical services (EMS), 8 percent are for fire, and 70 percent are for law enforcement, according to a study presented to the Santa Barbara County ...

The Sherpa Fire, burning for the fourth day in Santa Barbara County, is 45 percent contained, Santa Barbara County officials announced Saturday morning.

Nearly half of the on-duty strength of the Santa Barbara County Fire Department participated in successfully extinguishing the fully involved tractor-trailer, knocking down the exposed brushfire ...