Smoke was heaviest southeast of Los Angeles and widespread across the rest of Southern California. Data from air sensors suggested that the air quality was diminished in several places around the Los Angeles area. Air quality was also poor in the Northwest, including in Oregon and Idaho, where dozens more wildfires were burning.

Firefighters are battling three major wildfires raging east of Los Angeles, forcing evacuations and threatening homes. Areas like Big Bear and Wrightwood are severely affected. The infernos, intensified by a heatwave,

Wildfires around Orange County, Los Angeles are forcing evacuations, threatening homes and businesses, and filling the skies with smoke.

Out-of-control wildfires surrounding Los Angeles continued to grow Tuesday, forcing families to evacuate and blanketing the sky with choking smoke.The blaze, to the southwest of Los Angeles, was spewing thick smoke into the air,

A blaze threatened thousands of home and commercial structures as it burned along the edge of the San Bernardino National Forest, about 65 miles east of Los Angeles.

More than 36,000 structures are being threatened by a wildfire in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles and about 20,000 people have been evacuated in another fire south of Reno, Neva