Celebrating a big year of prescribed fire; how Cal Fire's 2023 season has outpaced the last
This year has been a big change of pace for Cal Fire as they have been able to work on more prescribed burns than wildfires this year.
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This year has been a big change of pace for Cal Fire as they have been able to work on more prescribed burns than wildfires this year.
Cultural burning is an ancient practice to preserve the land but it's now reshaping wildfire strategies across California.
In recent years, each California fire season has felt progressively more active, which makes Northern California's slower 2023 season feel even more quiet.
Cal Fire is getting national recognition for a piece of technology that is helping in the firefight. Time magazine named the agency's fire detection artificial intelligence program one of the best inventions of 2023.
Cal Fire says it has a new tool to battle wildfires before they explode -- artificial intelligence.
Cal Fire says drones are getting in the way of aerial firefighting efforts. Flights in restricted airspace have happened six times this year. Cal Fire warns flying drones in firefighting airspace is a crime.
A new tool aims to make neighborhoods safer from wildfires by linking state agencies together. It's a new database that looks at how wildfire prevention projects are going.
Some of California’s most devastating fires have moved through in October and November.
Smoke from the wildfires burning up north has found its way into the Sacramento Valley creating poor air quality. Much of the area is already under a red flag warning due to the low humidity, high wind and high temperatures.
Firefighters are on high alert after the National Weather Service issued its first red flag warning for the Sacramento Valley region this year.
As Tropical Storm Hilary battered parts of Southern California, it gave crews the break they needed in fighting fires across the northern region of the state.
It's been a relatively quiet fire season but Cal Fire, the state's main firefighting agency, says they've been keeping their crews sharp for whatever happens next.
This technology is using aerial resources, plus satellite imagery, to give real-time information to teams on the ground.
The National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies are still investigating what caused a deadly mid-air collision between two Cal Fire helicopters on Sunday.
Only on CBS13, we get an inside look at a correctional camp in Nevada County where inmate firefighters are getting ready for wildfire season.
The long-awaited heatwave arrived in Northern California on Friday.
Several brush fires over the past few weeks are a sign that California's fire season is in full swing.
Artificial intelligence is now helping firefighters identify wildfires with cameras that can detect smoke without the help of any human eyes.
Crews stopped the forward progress of a vegetation fire that sparked near Valley Springs in Calaveras County on Sunday.
With triple-digit temperatures and fireworks setting off, first responders are staffing up and prepared for any incidents that may occur this Fourth of July weekend.
Cal Fire will be joining other fire and law enforcement agencies from across the state on Tuesday to talk about how to use fireworks safely this Fourth of July.
Firefighters are battling a grass fire in Yuba County, said Cal Fire.
It was a cool first day of summer, but Cal Fire is gearing up for the heat that will inevitably come. Crews were out conducting a prescribed burn in the Garden Valley area on Wednesday and were making it easier for people to conduct their own burns. Read more here.
A 103-acre wildfire near Napa County's Berryessa Estates was 30 percent contained Friday night, Cal Fire said.
The Camp Fire is often considered to be one of the most destructive fires in California, which nearly destroyed the town of Paradise. As the town rebuilds from its 2018 devastation, it is also learning from the past.
Evacuations are underway Sunday as firefighters battle a wildfire burning with a dangerous rate of spread in Tuolumne County.
A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling that halted President Trump's efforts to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot.
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The fire is burning in the Mill Villa area southwest of downtown Sonora, near Highway 108 and Stockton Road and just northeast of Jamestown.
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Sacramento police said an 18-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection to the stabbing.
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The shooting happened at a party in unincorporated Morgan Hill that had been promoted through social media, the sheriff's office said.
An 18-year-old Sacramento resident has been arrested after five men were stabbed early Saturday morning in Old Sacramento, police said.
Sacramento is putting on an urban biking and scooting workshop in the Valley Hi neighborhood. It comes as e-bikes are growing in popularity, but many people still aren't following the rules.
People who live in Sacramento's Curtis Park neighborhood say they first started seeing new street parking restrictions go in several months ago, but they had no idea that it was an unauthorized act.
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A group of Downtown Sacramento business owners says they grew tired of watching garbage pile up on city streets and decided to roll up their sleeves and take matters into their own hands.
A Butte County judge found Ronnie Dean Stout II guilty Friday of starting the Park Fire in Northern California, exactly two years after the massive wildfire ignited.
As California races to build the infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence, communities across the state are increasingly weighing whether they want data centers in their own backyards.
A United Airlines employee appears to have been caught on video threatening to call ICE on a passenger last week at San Francisco International Airport.
Two Siskiyou County men have been charged with kidnapping two U.S. Forest Service employees who prosecutors say were abducted at gunpoint and held for 15 hours in a remote Northern California trailer.
A body found in San Francisco Bay on Thursday afternoon was identified as one of the three passengers missing after the sinking of their boat near Alcatraz Island on Tuesday.
Head coach Kyle Shanahan will have limited participation at the beginning of the San Francisco 49ers' training camp after he was injured in a crash. The team said his injuries are not life-threatening.
The Sixers' wild offseason continued Friday when they added four-time NBA champion LeBron James.
James McCann hit his 100th major league home run and Ryan Waldschmidt hit his first as part of a seven-run fifth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks routed the Athletics 15-5.
Kiki Iriafen had 23 points and 12 rebounds, Shakira Austin finished with 15 points and 15 rebounds, and the Washington Mystics rallied past Golden State for a 90-82 victory Monday night to snap the Valkyries' nine-game winning streak.
CJ Abrams and Dylan Crews hit back-to-back homers in the fifth inning to send the Washington Nationals to a 5-2 victory over the Athletics.
A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling that halted President Trump's efforts to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot.
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
A Ukrainian woman living in the U.S. was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at San Francisco International Airport, in an incident caught on video.
President Trump cracked jokes at the redo of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday night, after an armed assailant upended April's dinner.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is being accused of using politically charged language to describe a ballot measure that would require voters to show government-issued identification before casting a ballot.
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During the program's first year, it will be offered at about 65 to 75 hospitals that handle about a quarter of births in the state and largely serve low-income patients, Newsom's office said.
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More than a year after Hai Pham canceled the trial membership, he kept getting charged every month for it.
A Natomas mother demanded that her daughter be exhumed and cremated after a Sacramento cemetery moved her grave without telling the family.
All evacuation orders have been lifted for a fast-moving wildfire that sparked near the Nevada and Yuba county line Wednesday afternoon.
Firefighters stopped the forward progress of a vegetation fire that forced evacuations Sunday afternoon in the Pilot Hill area of El Dorado County.
Nothing but rubble remains of the McCombs home that was destroyed by the Kearny Fire. All their kids' toys, a wedding dress, memories and everything that meant something to them are completely gone.
All evacuation orders were lifted for a grass fire in rural Nevada County, west of Penn Valley, on Tuesday.
The Van Fire was reported Wednesday northeast of White Rock Road in Cathey's Valley, and north of Eastman Lake. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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A Sacramento County dog picked up thousands of miles from home after he went missing five years ago was reunited with his family on Wednesday.
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Old Sacramento was still busy throughout the day after the violence early Saturday morning. Police have said the stabbing was isolated.
On Saturday, a new monument was unveiled outside Fire Station 17 in Pollock Pines.
Police say they have detained three persons of interest after the early morning stabbing in Sacramento's most-popular tourist spot.
Tony Lopez reports.
Marlee Ginter reports.