Canyon Fire Near Lake Berryessa Grows To 55 Acres, 60% Contained
Cal Fire is battling a vegetation fire at Wragg Canyon Road and state Highway 128 near Lake Berryessa that has forced evacuations Monday afternoon.
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Cal Fire is battling a vegetation fire at Wragg Canyon Road and state Highway 128 near Lake Berryessa that has forced evacuations Monday afternoon.
A 4-acre wildfire near the summit of Mount Diablo was 100 percent contained Sunday morning and firefighters remained on scene cleaning the area into the afternoon.
Two homes were destroyed and a dog died Monday in a fast-moving brush fire that burned nearly 50 acres in the foothills of East San Jose, according to fire officials.
A large vegetation fire near the Carnegie State Vehicular Recreational Area in San Joaquin County has burned hundreds of acres, Cal Fire said on Wednesday.
Fire crews from Cal Fire and the San Jose Fire Department are at the scene of a brush fire near northbound Highway 101 at Coyote Creek Drive that has grown to 30 acres, according to authorities.
PG&E power lines sparked the fire that started Tuesday afternoon near King City, according to Cal Fire.
The Fremont Fire Department and Cal Fire extinguished a two-alarm vegetation fire near Montalban Drive and Blaisdell Way just north of a residential neighborhood in the Niles neighborhood of Fremont.
About 50 firefighters from three fire districts were able to contain an approximately 36-acre fire in unincorporated Contra Costa County southwest of Brentwood early Sunday morning.
With more devastating wildfires in the last several years in California, homeowners are doing much more to increase their chances of saving their homes from burning down.
The increasing fire danger prompted Cal Fire to suspend burn permits in Sonoma, Lake, Napa, Solano, Yolo, and Colusa Counties. The ban does not apply to campfires within campgrounds and on private property.
Forward progress has been stopped on a 35-acre brush fire in unincorporated Santa Clara County east of Milpitas, according to Cal Fire.
A vegetation fire just east near U.S. Highway 101 between South San Jose and Morgan Hill in Santa Clara County has consumed approximately 75 acres and is zero percent contained, Cal Fire is reporting.
Firefighters in Yolo County had made some progress on the Sand Fire Sunday afternoon, bringing the 2,200 acre wildfire to 20 percent containment, authorities said.
A wildfire that erupted in a woodland area near Cordelia grew to four alarms and burned 24 acres Friday, triggering mandatory evacuations of several residences on Thomasson Lane before the blaze's progress was halted.
The X Prize Foundation is developing a contest for technology that can detect and extinguish wildfires before they grow too large.
Even with the state's drought declared over, Cal Fire is bracing for a worse-than-average fire season this summer.
A hang glider pilot died late Sunday afternoon when he plunged into the Pacific Ocean off the coast near Pacifica, a Cal Fire spokesman said.
A fire broke out at a Cal Fire station in Saint Helena late Thursday evening and damaged several fire engines.
In one of the largest emergency forest projects underway in California, crews are thinning two sections of forest on both sides of Ukiah.
Cal Fire announced Thursday that an investigation has determined the deadly Tubbs Fire that ravaged Santa Rosa in October of 2017 was started by a private electrical system and not by PG&E equipment.
When a wildfire burned across Big Sur two years ago and threatened hundreds of homes scattered on the scenic hills, thousands of firefighters responded with overwhelming force, attacking flames from the air and ground.
California's increasingly deadly and destructive wildfires have become so unpredictable that government officials should consider banning home construction in vulnerable areas, the state's top firefighter says.
UC Berkeley hosted firefighters and their families at the annual Big Game on Saturday, which was itself postponed two weeks because of smoke from the Camp Fire in Butte County.
A firefighter who commuted from Paradise to Half Moon Bay lost his home to the Camp Fire. His fellow firefighters banded together to help him and his family.
After a weeklong search for the victims of the Camp Fire, California Task Force 3 has been demobilized and is heading back to the Bay Area Sunday, the Menlo Park Fire Department reported.
