The 'human-caused' blaze has challenged firefighting efforts. It comes as parts of the state are under red flag warnings.

Santa Rosa Island Fire initially started 4:19 p.m. May 15 on South side of Santa Rosa Island, Between Ford Point and South Point in Santa Barbara County, California. It has burned 18,379 acres after ...

National Park Service officials say that the blaze is a "full-suppression human-caused wildfire," which has burned more than ...

A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned around one-fourth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what ...

Initial location: South side of Santa Rosa Island, Between Ford Point and South Point, Santa Barbara County, Calif. Santa ...

The U.S. Coast Guard says that the human-caused fire was possibly started by flares from a stranded boater, who was rescued ...

Investigators are looking into whether an SOS flare from a shipwrecked mariner started the Santa Rosa Island Fire off ...

The fast-moving fires prompted evacuations and the closure of a national park the afternoon of Monday, May 18.

On Tuesday, new details emerged about the circumstances before a 67-year-old mariner was rescued and a vegetation fire ...

A helicopter evacuated 11 National Park Service employees from Santa Rosa Island as a human-caused wildfire spread across more than 10,000 acres.