Mudslides are dangerous torrents that are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows.

Heavy rain battered Southern California on Thursday and made for dangerous conditions near burn scars from recent wildfires.

In Southern California, large swaths of burned land from recent wildfires remain vulnerable to the rain and could quickly become sites of mudslides, forecasters warned. Last week, San Francisco ...

Southern California mountain communities are concerned over land and mudslide dangers as a winter storm arrives this week. Recent burn scar areas pose heightened threats, like the nearly 44,000 ...