Large Vegetation Fire Burns North Of Beale Air Force Base
Cal Fire was battling a large vegetation fire north of Beale Air Force Base on Sunday night.
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Cal Fire was battling a large vegetation fire north of Beale Air Force Base on Sunday night.
California state and local officials are encouraging rebuilding in areas destroyed by wildfires at a time when people should be redirected away from those areas if the state wants to reduce the economic and human impact of increasingly destructive wildfires, according to a report published Thursday.
A new firefighting tool couldn't come at a better time as crews brace for an active fire season.
A fire is burning along Highway 89 on the west side of Lake Tahoe.
Volunteer fire departments in rural Yolo County are considering legal action to get the money they need to keep up with a fire season they say now lasts all year.
The Sacramento Fire Department said crews battled a grass fire Sunday afternoon in the American River Parkway near Cal Expo.
Two fires that burned in the American River Parkway Wednesday night have sparked concerns as some of the blame is being pointed at the city's homeless crisis.
At least a tenth of the world's mature giant sequoias was destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year.
Authorities say a fire that prompted some evacuations in Sonora over the weekend looks like it was possibly caused by someone who didn't dispose of BBQ ashes properly.
Firefighters have contained a fire burning in Nevada County on Monday.
Democrats who control the state Senate said Thursday they intend to advance a 10-bill package to the Assembly in the next week as California rushes to prepare for an intensifying drought and what officials fear could be a repeat of last year's record wildfire season.
Pacific Gas & Electric is getting hit with a nearly $150 million bill for neglect that caused Northern California wildfires during the past two years and mismanagement of blackouts designed to prevent the utility's crumbling power grid from causing more damage.
Wildfires have burned roughly 14,000 acres in California this year as a deepening drought grips the Southwest -- more than five times the acreage charred by the same time last year.
California is increasing its wildfire preparedness. Governor Newsom is proposing a record-breaking $2 billion investment on new equipment, firefighters, and other safety needs.
Crews have contained a grass fire that has burned 1,800 acres in rural Yolo County.
