Cal Fire: Alta Fire in Napa County at 50% containment, held to 14 acres
Cal Fire responded to a vegetation fire burning in Napa County on Tuesday afternoon.
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Cal Fire responded to a vegetation fire burning in Napa County on Tuesday afternoon.
Team coverage of the hot temperatures set to increase fire danger in the Bay Area and beyond as a Red Flag Warning and Spare the Air alert are set to go into effect (8-29-2023)
Devin Fehely reports on rising concerns over wildfires after relatively calm fire season so far (8-15-2023)
Cal Fire is warning the public that this year's relatively mild wildfire season is expected to intensify as we enter the late-summer months into the early fall.
Prescribed burns limit the fuel available for wildland fires to spread but the practice is facing a major roadblock in California. Kelsi Thorud reports. (8-4-23)
This fire season, Cal Fire is utilizing a growing fleet of helicopters that are capable of fighting fire when no other aircraft can: nighttime.
This fire season, Cal Fire is deploying a growing fleet of helicopters capable of fighting fire when no other aircraft can. Kelsi Thorud reports. (8-3-23)
Reed Cowan interviews Cal Fire Santa Clara Unit PIO Chelsea Burkett about the Clayton Fire burning in East San Jose (8-3-2023)
Cal Fire is providing $47 million to protect California's children from extreme heat by creating more green spaces at schools, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.
Cal Fire has stopped the spread of a timber fire northwest of Cloverdale in Sonoma County.
Fire crews contained a grass fire that burned about 24 acres in rural Sonoma County Friday.
Firefighters are battling a grass fire in Yuba County, said Cal Fire.
A 103-acre wildfire near Napa County's Berryessa Estates was 80 percent contained Sunday morning, Cal Fire said.
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.
A crash in El Granada Saturday sent a car off the road, hitting a house and injuring 2; later, a car rolled over farther south on Hwy 1, prompting Cal Fire to tweet a caution to slow down while driving along the coast.
Cal Fire says there could be a boomerang effect from the wet weather when green, grassy hills finally turn dry this summer. Devin Fehely reports. (4-1-23)
"Operation Hay Drop" is a mission to save starving and stranded cows – many of which are pregnant – from dying amid back-to-back winter storms.
The climate crisis is among the key factors in a new assessment that shows more than 85% of California's rural and unincorporated land is now in "high" or "very high" severity zones for wildfire danger.
California's office of the State Fire marshal released an updated fire hazard map showing which unincorporated parts of California are most at risk for fires and what future destruction could look like.
A ban on residential backyard burning in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties will be lifted at 8 a.m. Thursday, according to Cal Fire.
Cal Fire crews in Lake County responded to a grassfire near Lower Lake Tuesday morning, according to a tweet.
The Placer County wildfire started September 6 and spread into neighboring El Dorado County, forcing evacuations
A weekend weather system could hamper firefighters' efforts battling the week-old Mosquito Fire that's burned more than 66,000 acres, becoming the largest in the state so far this year.
Cal Fire Chief Jon Heggie talks about expected impact of forecast rains this weekend (9-15-2022)
