Containment Of Dog Rock Fire Up To 95 Percent
Fire crews have significantly increased their containment of a fire at the edge of Yosemite National Park where an air-tanker pilot fighting the blaze died last week.
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Fire crews have significantly increased their containment of a fire at the edge of Yosemite National Park where an air-tanker pilot fighting the blaze died last week.
Officials say a wildfire burning along a Northern California interstate has destroyed five homes.
Cal Fire officials say that firefighters are battling a total of five fires along eastbound Interstate 80.
Cal Fire has grounded their tanker fleet as federal investigators continue their probe into Tuesday's air tanker crash.
Officials confirm that a firefighter sustained a "significant injury" in the King Fire area Wednesday.
More than 7,000 firefighters in better-than-expected conditions managed to extend their lines around a huge and unwieldy wildfire that has threatened thousands of homes for well over a week and fouled the air in two states.
For the second day in a row, the National Weather Service has issued a "dense smoke advisory" for Reno and much of the Sierra's eastern front as the smoky haze from a California wildfire nearly 100 miles away again pushed air quality into the unhealthy range.
Crews have nearly doubled containment of a wildfire threatening thousands of homes in Northern California, as they brace for dry heat and erratic winds that could undo their progress.
As firefighters gain ground fighting the massive King Fire, it's now becoming clearer how many families have lost everything.
On Wednesday alone, Cal Fire says it used more than 200,000 gallons of retardant. About 530,000 gallons of retardant have come out of McClellan Airfield.
Cal Fire confirms that some buildings in the King Fire area have been damaged or destroyed.
A wildfire that has driven some 2,800 people from their homes in Northern California is growing but not as substantially as in previous days.
Officials now say a wildfire that ripped through a Northern California town destroyed about 110 homes and damaged another 90.
Firefighters are working to contain a growing fire near Pollock Pines that has prompted evacuations.
Hundreds of homes remained threatened by the King Fire burning near Pollock Pines Sunday night.
It's the call no one wants to get while away from their home.
Firefighters are battling a fire south of Grass Valley that has prompted evacuations and destroyed a couple of homes Saturday afternoon.
A fast-moving wildfire east of Mariposa has forced evacuations of in the Ponderosa Basin area Friday afternoon.
A fast-growing wildfire in Northern California has forced the evacuation of an unknown number of homes near of the historic town of Weaverville.
A wildfire that surged early and gave a scare to a community near Yosemite National Park has been tamed by firefighters, and some of the more than 1,000 people who evacuated their homes have returned.
It's a destructive combination no one, especially fire crews, likes to see: drought and lightning. And the results can be explosive.
Firefighters are trying get a handle on a fire near Winters that has quickly grown to 150 acres.
Firefighters in Northern California on Sunday battled a wildfire that has destroyed 10 homes and forced hundreds of evacuations in the Sierra Nevada foothills, while a fire near Yosemite National Park destroyed one home and grew significantly overnight.
Cal Fire officials have announced new evacuations after the Sand Fire raging in Amador and El Dorado counties nearly tripled in size Saturday.
A Sacramento man by the name of Freddie Alexander Smoke III has been arrested for starting the Bully Fire in Shasta County.
