Water that had accumulated behind the collapsed glacier has began to flow downstream, alleviating some fears. Forecast rain ...

The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a ...

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 ...

An atmospheric river forecasters say is likely to be the strongest in nearly a year is set to unleash rain across Southern California this week, heightening concerns of damaging debris flows in ...

Storms now pounding Southern California are raising the specter of more danger for residents — debris flows in areas already reeling from devastating fires. Debris flows are like mudslides, except ...

In West Los Angeles, where the Palisades fire began Jan. 7, there’s a greater risk of flooding and rockslides than debris flows. But the reports — issued by the California Department of ...

In addition to the evacuation warnings across Southern California, preparations aimed at preventing debris flow disaster are underway before the worst conditions from California’s storm arrive ...

boulders and debris from the torched slopes Debris flow risk: The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for late Thursday, with the greatest risks in areas burned by the Eaton ...

Triggered by intense bouts of rainfall, these debris flows — as well as flash floods — become more likely to occur after an intense wildfire has scorched an area’s slopes and vegetation.

As a principal engineer for the county’s Public Works Department, Klippel’s job is to try to stop catastrophic flows of mud, debris and boulders that could rush into fire-stricken ...

25–26 could help tamp down the fires. But rain can also trigger dangerous floods and debris flows on burned hillslopes. These flows can move with the speed of a freight train, picking up or ...