Grass fire prompts evacuations of dozens of homes in Sacramento County
Dozens of homes were evacuated after a grass fire burned in the Wilton area of Sacramento County on Thursday afternoon, the sheriff's office said.
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Dozens of homes were evacuated after a grass fire burned in the Wilton area of Sacramento County on Thursday afternoon, the sheriff's office said.
An electric big rig caught fire in the Sierra Nevada early Monday morning. As of noon, the roadway still hasn't reopened.
The scene was in Citrus Heights on Thursday morning.
Hundreds of people were allowed to return home Tuesday after being forced to flee a wildfire west of Reno that also shut down Interstate 80 along the California-Nevada line.
Five mobile homes were destroyed in a fire at a trailer park in Modesto on Monday afternoon, firefighters said.
California's decades-old wildfire mapping system could face some changes with a measure continuing to make its way through the legislature.
A man is safe after he was rescued by a neighbor from a house fire in the Gold River community late Thursday night.
A man is safe after a fire ripped through his home overnight, all thanks to a good neighbor.
California's fifth largest wildfire is encroaching on some of the last strongholds for imperiled salmon.
A Nevada County man is facing several counts of arson.
The fight to put out fires is just as important on the ground as it is in the air.
France's high-speed rail network was hit by serious acts of criminal vandalism just hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, officials say.
Ripon only has three paramedics year-round, and none of them were able to make it to staff the department's sole ambulance.
A father and his daughter are dead after a South Sacramento apartment fire. It happened at the Stonegate apartments on Mack Road Monday afternoon.
A man and child died in a fire at an apartment complex in south Sacramento, officials said Monday.
An American Airlines jet preparing to leave San Francisco International Airport for Miami had to be evacuated Friday after the aircraft's cabin filled with smoke from a laptop, airline officials said.
An engineering report that came out early might be the key to moving things along in Yuba County with recovering from the Hotel Marysville fire.
California lawmakers have unveiled two bond measures that would go to voters in November.
As the insurance crisis in California continues, it is also making it harder for small businesses to stay afloat.
All evacuation orders have been lifted in Calaveras County due to the Aero Fire as containment has increased to 67%.
"This is going to apply to any unapproved lot and every business as well as the residential structures. It won't apply to state or federal lands," a South Lake Tahoe fire marshal said.
E Street in Marysville remains closed in both directions after a fire broke out at the Hotel Marysville late Saturday night.
Authorities now say that they have arrested a man suspected of lighting a grass fire that went on to burn 35 acres near Rancho Cordova.
As things are heating up in the Sacramento Valley, firefighters are working hard to keep up with fires. They are sharing their frustrations as the first heat wave has people scrambling.
Fire crews on the Peninsula on Monday morning have knocked down a large fire that burned at an affordable-housing construction site in Redwood City that led to evacuation orders for people in the area, according to authorities.
