High Winds, Dry Conditions A Prelude To Busy Fire Season
As temperatures climb toward the triple digits next month, fire officials say conditions are again ripe for another busy fire season.
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As temperatures climb toward the triple digits next month, fire officials say conditions are again ripe for another busy fire season.
Residents are worried it could mean some areas could go without firefighters as California's dry season approaches.
The order calls for accelerating forest management procedures such as cutting back dense stands of trees and setting controlled fires.
They're on a quest for a major funding boost as they say climate change is making what used to be isolated to summer a year-long phenomenon.
Lalo Barajas and Peter Fleurat were swept away when mud and boulders crashed through their house in Montecito during a powerful downpour after the Thomas Fire.
With a surge of cases waiting, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye made the case for restoring staffing and funding cut during the recession.
California state agencies spent nearly $1.8 billion fighting fierce wildfires that killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses last year.
They are requesting $100 million to fix the response system, allowing dispatchers to "pre-deploy" resources in high risk, red flag conditions.
Already stretched thin, the rural and high fire danger community is facing a crisis in funding and retaining firefighters.
Last week, Lowe posted that he was preparing for a possible evacuation in case the fire came closer to his home.
A firefighter assigned to the huge wildfire burning in Southern California has died.
Dr. Antonio Wong and his wife remember falling in love with their first home, a 3,000 square-foot beauty in Southern California they've owned for more than a decade.
Contractors are stretched thin as is, and new roadblocks may mean people looking for a place to live will have to wait.
Every day firefighters in Los Angeles receive a brush burning index report that indicates the fire danger. If it's 165 or higher, that's extreme.
Barely two months after the wine country fires charred Northern California, the state is once again staring down a spate of wildfires.
