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California’s fire season is starting off worse than normal, and SoCal fires are almost entirely to blame
The Gifford fire straddling a rural stretch of the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county line continued to grow Monday, ...
Kimberly Fire: Forward progress stopped for fire burning in Tuolumne County
THAT BREAKING NEWS IS IN TUOLUMNE COUNTY RIGHT NOW. EVACUATION ORDERS ARE IN PLACE BECAUSE OF A VEGETATION FIRE IN SONORA. WE ...
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Rosa Fire: 1200 acres, zero percent containment, Hwy. 74 shut down from Hwy. 371 to Palm Desert
Highway 74 remains shut down as a vegetation fire has burned around 1,200 acres between Anza and Pinyon Pines, with zero ...
Cal Fire firefighter, 26, dies in off-duty accident; had served Amador-El Dorado
Christion Schoenfeld was in Cal Fire’s Mendocino Unit; he had served two years as a handcrew firefighter in Amador-El Dorado ...
CAL FIRE demonstrates retardant drop dangers, plans Ramona Air Base upgrades
CAL FIRE demonstrated the potentially destructive force of aerial retardant drops while announcing plans for a $12 million ...
Nearly 2,000 responders fighting southern California wildfire
A wildfire that ignited Friday in Southern California has exploded to tens of thousands of acres as nearly 2,000 firefighters ...
Map: Gifford Fire closing in on wildfire season’s top spot
At the end of Sunday, Aug. 3, the wildfire was mapped at 65,061 acres (101 square miles) — an increase of more than 25,000 ...
Cal Fire crews fight blaze near St. Helena winery, south of Lake Hennessey
Cal Fire crews were in St. Helena fighting a fire that began near a winery on Monday, Cal Fire LNU said. The fire was near ...