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 ...

Fire crews quickly knocked down a blaze Thursday that began in a Costa Mesa home’s laundry room. The Costa Mesa Fire & Rescue Department received a report at 11:56 a.m. of a residential fire in the ...

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 ...