As devastating wildfires have destroyed huge swaths of Los Angeles County, incinerating homes and leaving at least 27 people dead, fire and law enforcement authorities have also had to contend with multiple cases of arson. Authorities have arrested at ...

Fugitive Josephine Sunshine Overaker's alleged eco-terror cell "The Family" has been linked to more than two dozen arson attacks from 1996 to 2001.

Bicyclists ignited a trash can explosion near Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, prompting an arson investigation.

An arson investigation is underway in Los Angeles after a group of bicyclists allegedly set a trash can on fire Saturday afternoon, said the Los Angeles Police Department.

Authorities have not shared any specific information to suggest any individuals arrested for arson caused major fires. At a news conference January 12, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said ...

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman announced arson charges Friday against six men who set fires around L.A. County in the wake of the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires. A man who impersonated a firefighter to sneak into a Malibu evacuation ...

An arson suspect was taken into custody after a quarter-acre brush fire was set below Griffith Observatory on Monday, officials said.

Yet another fire broke out in Los Angeles on Monday, this time in Griffith Park. But first responders were able to quickly extinguish the fire, putting the quarter-acre blaze out in just 31 minutes.

LOS ANGELES - A man is accused of setting off an arson fire in Los Angeles ' Griffith Park neighborhood. The Los Angeles City's fire and police departments responded to a brush fire off the Boy Scout Trail near the Griffith Observatory around 1 p.m. on Monday, January 20.

Nine more people have been charged with various crimes committed during recent devastating wildfires in Los Angeles County, ranging from arson and looting to impersonating a firefighter. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced the new ...

The most dangerous criminal in the world is a wildland arsonist with a match,” says Ed Nordskog, a former detective with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and internationally renowned fire investigator.

The FBI would eventually call John Orr the most prolific serial arsonist of the 20th century, and when he went on trial in 1998, prosecutors presented his manuscript as a thinly veiled memoir of his crimes.