Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

In October and November 2007, an unprecedented series of wildfires struck the entire southern half of California, and once again thousands of homes were either in flames or threatened by them, with ...

After a wildfire, the danger continues, especially during torrential rain that can set off fast-moving landslides known as debris flows. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a San Francisco-based reporter on The ...

LOS ANGELES — A mud and debris flow Tuesday morning prompted the evacuation of a hilltop home in the Beverly Crest area and an order by the city to close Mulholland Drive to through traffic for at ...

PORONG, Indonesia — For nine months, a gaping hole in the ground has spit out a biblical torrent of hot, black mud, swallowing thousands of homes outside Indonesia's second-largest city and attracting ...

Flooding, mud and debris flow continue to worsen on Wednesday afternoon in Wrightwood, as heavy rainfall has led authorities to issue a community-wide "shelter in place" advisory. Around 1:30 p.m., ...

Residents of a California neighborhood had to be rescued after Tropical Storm Hilary triggered a roaring mudflow, walloping homes and flooding streets. Videos and photos shared on social media Monday ...

Hours of steady rain triggered a mud flow in Studio City that forced evacuations late Sunday and damaged at least two homes. The mud flow was reported around 9 p.m. in the 11900 block of West ...

A leading Indonesian environmental group has sued Lapindo Brantas and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over the mud flow at the Banjar Panji 1 well in the Brantas gas field that has displaced more ...