As Costa Mesa says goodbye to Police Chief John Hensley, who retires today, Fire Chief Jim Ellis has left his job on medical leave, and it is unknown when he will return, city officials said. Ellis ...

Decades before the city of Costa Mesa became an incorporated municipality, there were citizens who risked life and limb to protect lives and property, working as an all-volunteer fire department that ...

COSTA MESA, Calif . -- A 96-foot-tall Christmas tree went up in flames outside the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa on Monday morning, officials said. The blaze was reported by a ...

March 20--Costa Mesa firefighters rescued a woman and her dog late Tuesday night, after her fire alarms alerted neighbors to a blaze that had broken out in the 2100 block of Canyon Drive, authorities ...