Firefighters Contain Multiple-Alarm Fire Off I-80 Near Vacaville
Crews contained a quick-spreading fire near Vacaville Friday afternoon.
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Crews contained a quick-spreading fire near Vacaville Friday afternoon.
After originally rejecting California's request for disaster relief funds, which would help clean up the damage from six recent wildfires, the Trump Administration has now approved the declaration.
Firefighters battled a second-alarm vegetation fire in Fairfield Thursday afternoon.
A Natomas neighborhood is feeling like they dodged a bullet after a wind-whipped fire came within feet of homes.
Power shutoffs will go into effect beginning Wednesday evening as a fire-weather watch takes effect this week, Pacific Gas and Electric announced.
Fire crews from across the state were being deployed to Northern California, where hot, windy conditions Wednesday renewed the threat of fire in the region where massive blazes already have destroyed hundreds of homes and killed or injured dozens of people this year.
Firefighters are battling a new fire burning in Calaveras County near the community of Copperopolis early Tuesday afternoon.
The American Red Cross is seeking volunteers to help folks who have been impacted by California wildfires.
Containment of California's devastating wildfires continued to increase Monday but the weather was again turning hot and dry, and forecasts called for the kind of winds that historically have fanned conflagrations during fall.
The sight is every winemaker's nightmare. "Smoke-tainted" grapes, blackened casks of wine, charred and broken bottles where once there were picturesque vineyards.
California's largest utility company said its equipment might have caused a fatal wildfire last month in a county in the northern part of the state, the Mercury News reported Saturday.
Cool weather and light drizzle in some places provided relief for firefighters working to increase containment of numerous wildfires across California on Saturday, but the forecast for dry and warming conditions starting on Sunday signaled that the state's lethal fire season is far from over.
A woman and a child have been identified as two of four people killed in the Zogg Fire, officials said Thursday.
As California battles the worst wildfire season on record, one man thinks he has the solution by beefing up air support to get to fires faster.
While cooler weather is still expected later in the week, hope for rain over wildfire-scarred Northern California is starting to fade.
