Firefighters Make All-Out Effort to Contain Explosive River Fire Near Colfax
The battle to stop the spread of the River Fire in Nevada and Placer County is continuing into the night.
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The battle to stop the spread of the River Fire in Nevada and Placer County is continuing into the night.
Denise Clark, who moved to Colfax just three months ago, witnessed the flames overtake her neighborhood and her home.
It has already been an unprecedented fire season along the American River Parkway.
California's largest wildfire tore through the small Plumas County town of Greenville on Wednesday evening, destroying businesses and homes as the sky was cast in an orange glow.
Firefighters worked quickly to stop a vegetation fire that could have been made worse by the wind coming later on Wednesday.
A lot of people are doing whatever they can to protect their homes in what has been a historic fire season, but finding a company to do the work may be challenging.
A vegetation fire that originally had its forward progress stopped is now spotting and threatening structures near Placerville.
PG&E says it may be responsible for another fire in Northern California.
Fighting fires faster and more aggressively -- it's a major policy change for the U.S. Forest Service, after bipartisan outrage over major fires that were left burn then got out of hand.
Firefighters say they had to battle 50-foot flames whipped up by wind in a wildfire near Grass Valley late Monday morning.
With more than 95% of the Western United States in drought, combined with a month's stretch of above-normal temperatures, an outlook released Sunday shows fire season prospects looking grim.
An Oroville man has been arrested for starting a fire in Thermalito in Butte County last month.
Prosecutors said they have determined Pacific Gas and Electric criminally liable for causing the Zogg Fire, which killed four people and destroyed several homes in Shasta County in 2020.
The governors of California and Nevada on Wednesday planned to tour the state line area blackened by one of several massive wildfires that have destroyed dozens of homes in the West.
A group of first responders helping in the Dixie Fire jumped into action to prevent a different kind of tragedy.
