The Sheriff's Department hosting a shooting-bomb scare training at the Westfield Valencia Town Center shopping mall in Santa Clarita on Sunday

Los Angeles County Fire Department officials are planning tests to prepare for fire season -- assuming the conditions are right, officials said Tuesday. “We haven’t put any live fire on the ground due to fuel conditions,” said Inspector Tony Akins of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. “We have to have a burn prescription.” The Fire Department regularly conducts “controlled” or “prescribed” burns to prepare for fire season at Peter Pitchess Honor Rancho and the Del Valle Fire Training Center in Castaic, but only under certain conditions.

Los Angeles County firefighters hosted a training drill Thursday in Castaic to teach highly sought after ignitions operation course

The Sheriff’s Department will be conducting a TRAINING exercise on the College of the Canyons Valencia campus today from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The TRAINING area will be around the PE Facilities and Hasley Hall.  This is a TRAINING EXERCISE ONLY. More information about the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s ...

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies conducted an active shooter drill as if it were the real situation this Thursday, in case such a tragedy were ever to take place in the Santa Clarita Valley.