Fire Chief Dave Johnson was sworn in at noon Wednesday at the Silvis Main Fire Station.

Dave Johnson was sworn in as the new chief of the Silvis Fire Department. He's served as fire chief in Hampton, Illinois, for the last nine years.

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The challenges Woolsey Fire survivors have faced offer a warning for victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires.

The Woolsey Fire has surpassed last year's Thomas Fire in terms of structures destroyed, figures released Sunday show.

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows.The Eaton and Palisades ...