Oakland Fire Crews Monitor Hills After Series Of Small Blazes Deemed Suspicious
Crews have been patrolling the Dimond Canyon Park area, after five fires deemed suspicious broke out in the area on Tuesday afternoon.
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Crews have been patrolling the Dimond Canyon Park area, after five fires deemed suspicious broke out in the area on Tuesday afternoon.
A 35-acre wildfire burning in Samuel P. Taylor State Park in west Marin County is 50 percent contained as of Thursday afternoon, a Marin County Fire Department battalion chief said.
Officials say three firefighters have been injured in a Central California wildfire that has burned through more than 2 square miles in two days.
A wildfire that broke out in Central California has triggered the evacuation of about 100 rural homes.
With evacuation orders being lifted Friday, investigators worked to determine whether an unusually early and intense outbreak of wildfires in Southern California this week was ignited by something as ordinary as sparks from cars or something as sinister as an arsonist.
The San Diego County sheriff says nearly 13,000 new evacuation notices have been issued due to a wildfire burning around the city of San Marcos.
Flames engulfed suburban homes and shot up along canyon ridges in one of the worst of several blazes that broke out Wednesday in Southern California during a second day of a sweltering heat wave, taxing fire crews who fear the scattered fires mark only the beginning of a long wildfire season.
A wildfire that forced the evacuation of at least 1,100 homes grew to 800 acres on Wednesday, fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that pushed it through foothills east of Los Angeles.
Cal Fire is staffing up its wildfire response crew earlier than normal the year after an uncommonly dry winter across most of the state.
Fire officials in Marin County say a wildfire burning in the remote hills west of Fairfax since last night is now fully contained.
Officials are optimistic that a wildfire in California's Big Sur region that has destroyed 14 homes and several other buildings will soon be put out.
Officials are optimistic that a wildfire in California's Big Sur region that has destroyed 14 homes and several other buildings will soon be put out.
A wildfire burning Monday in the Big Sur area of California destroyed at least 15 homes and forced about 100 people to evacuate as it chewed through dry vegetation on its way toward the ocean.
The vegetation fire off the Silverado Trail in the Soda Canyon area sparked the evacuations of about 50 homes and road closures on Thursday.
A late-season wildfire has destroyed one structure and threatened multiple geothermal power plants in Sonoma County.
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have designed a satellite that could pinpoint wildfires; a project they say could save millions of dollars in firefighting resources while preventing the out-of-control infernos increasingly seen in western states.
Firefighters battled a wildfire on the University of California at Santa Cruz campus for nearly six hours Sunday morning.
A quickly spreading wildfire burning near Lake Berryessa in Napa County was 75 percent contained as of Friday morning, according to authorities.
A fire that raged in forest land in and around Yosemite National Park has left a contiguous barren moonscape in the Sierra Nevada mountains that experts say is larger than any burned in centuries.
Authorities have found a body inside the perimeter of a wildfire that destroyed 30 homes and forced the evacuation of 300 others in Northern California.
A wind-whipped wildfire in Northern California's Shasta County destroyed 30 homes and damaged others, as it quickly grew to more than 11 square miles, according to fire officials.
