California Fire Crews Are Stretched Thin And Competing For Resources
Hot and windy weather is making current California fires worse and firefighters on the front lines are struggling to get the resources they need.
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Hot and windy weather is making current California fires worse and firefighters on the front lines are struggling to get the resources they need.
A record amount of California is burning, spurred by a nearly 20-year mega-drought. To the north, parts of Oregon that don't usually catch fire are in flames.
As smoke continues to blanket the sky and fill the lungs of plenty of people in Sacramento and the rest of California, there's a burning question. Why is the smoke so bad in some areas and not in others?
Hundreds of campers that had been trapped by the flames of the Creek Fire in the Sierra are finally safe.
Dark skies combined with falling ash has caused people to overload 911 lines, panicked the flames might be near.
Amid a Red Flag Warning and grave fire conditions, the U.S. Forest Service has taken unprecedented steps to prevent disaster.
Several national forests in California were shut down Monday evening because of the extreme fire danger.
When the LNU Lightning Complex Fires tore through the Solano County, people tried to put out hotspots on their own to protect their homes. With firefighting resources stretched thin, some considered it necessary.
A Texas volunteer firefighter was killed while helping battle one of the wildfires raging in Northern California.
The firefighter was killed in Mendocino National Forest north of San Francisco, where a wildfire that started on Aug. 17 was 20% contained, according to a statement from the U.S. Forest Service.
Two years ago, Jerry Balasek got out of Paradise alive. He never thought he would have to escape another fire after losing everything.
California's firefighting agency is in talks with the National Guard and California Conservation Corps about providing reinforcements as an already devastating wildfire season threatens to get even worse.
The recent heatwave and wildfire smoke have made for especially tough times for farm workers who were already struggling with COVID-19.
When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth, may finally have succumbed.
Firefighters are gaining containment on the LNU Lightning Complex Fire. The fire has grown to approximately 315,817 acres and is now 25% contained, Cal Fire said Monday evening.
Fire officials are cautiously optimistic after dodging a major lightning storm, but they are pleading with residents to heed warnings and stay out of evacuation zones as three massive San Francisco Bay Area wildfires rage on, suffocating the region with smoky air.
An unwelcome change in the weather, with higher winds, temperatures and lightning that threatens to spark new wildfires was coming Sunday to parched Northern California, where firefighters have for nearly a week battled three huge "complexes" of fires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced tens of thousands to flee.
Sacramento has opened two cleaner-air centers to help people with respiratory issues while the air is thick with smoke from wildfires burning across the region and state, city officials announced on Saturday.
Firefighters in California were racing to slow the spread of wildfires that burned nearly one million acres in a week and destroyed hundreds of homes as weekend weather threatened to spark new fires and overwhelm the state's firefighting ability.
Already fighting several fires across the state, they're also up against COVID-19.
Firefighters and aircraft from 10 states began arriving in California Friday to help weary crews battling some of the largest blazes in state history as weekend weather threatened to renew the advance of flames that have killed six people and incinerated hundreds of homes.
Almost every firefighting resource in California is battling the hundreds of blazes the include two of the largest wildfires in the state's history, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday.
Regardless of where you live, you have probably seen the hazy skies and ash in the air.
The deadly LNU Lightning Complex Fire has spread to five counties, destroying at least 480 structures and burning 215,000 acres.
The helicopter pilot who died fighting one of hundreds of wildfires raging across California was making water drops over hilly, rugged terrain when his aircraft suddenly plunged to the ground, leaving behind a grieving family as authorities begin a painstaking effort to try to determine what caused the tragedy.
