House Fire: New Wildfire Erupts In Shasta County West of Redding
A new wildfire broke out in Shasta County Wednesday about seven miles west of Redding.
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A new wildfire broke out in Shasta County Wednesday about seven miles west of Redding.
This fire season, the Berkeley Fire department wants residents in the hills to start thinking about the risk and when it might be better to leave before an evacuation order, even before a fire even starts.
New activity on the northern side of the Dixie Fire in Plumas County Tuesday afternoon brought more mandatory evacuation orders to the east shore of Lake Almanor, the northeast side of Indian Valley and the town of Chester, according to authorities.
Two lightning-caused wildfires in Trinity County in upper Northern California jumped in size over the past 24 hours to more than 21,000 acres combined.
Pacific Gas & Electric said its equipment may have been involved in the start of a small wildfire that merged with the massive Dixie Fire now threatening homes in Northern California.
Officials from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District issued a health caution advisory Monday to residents in the northern and central regions of the San Joaquin Valley due to an ongoing wildfire nearby.
ire crews were fighting a small wildfire in Lake County Monday night, according to Lake County Sheriff's Department.
The still growing Dixie Fire in Plumas County forced a new round of evacuations Monday after jumping containment lines and threatening the community of Greenville, according to authorities.
Strong downdrafts and pop-up thundershowers slowed progress over the weekend on the stubborn eastern edge of the massive Dixie Fire as the blaze grew to 244,888 acres in rural Butte and Plumas counties with 32 percent containment.
Interstate 580 through the Altamont Pass in Alameda County remained snarled in both directions late Saturday afternoon following a 15-acre grass fire that burned close to the freeway.
Pacific Gas & Electric will face criminal charges because its equipment sparked a wildfire last year that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes, a Northern California prosecutor announced Thursday.
Firefighters were battling a vegetation fire that has prompted the evacuation of Pinnacles National Park in Monterey County.
Fire crews quickly doused four fire starts along Pacheco Pass Highway 52 in what authorities dubbed the Lovers Fire.
With a backdrop of a home burned out by the devastating Tamarack Fire, Gov. Gavin Newsom pleaded for more federal firefighting assistance Wednesday as the state faces another year of historic wildfires.
Cal Fire has been deploying drones armed with 'aerial firing devices' igniting backfires in the battle to halt the advancing flames of the Dixie Fire, which had grown to 217,581 acres and was 23 percent contained early Wednesday.
Crews in the South Bay battled a brush fire burning along Coyote Creek, near homes and businesses in North San Jose and Milpitas well into Tuesday night.
Erratic weather conditions stoked the Dixie Fire burning in Butte and Plumas counties overnight, with the area burned now topping 200,000 acres Tuesday.
Weather radar screens lit up with dozens of lightning strikes early Tuesday, fortunately they were far offshore and not a threat to ignite wildfires across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Erratic winds and the potential for dry lightning added to the challenges facing firefighters battling the Dixie Fire, the largest wildfire currently burning in California.
A new wildfire was burning in the Sequoia National Forest in Tulare County Monday afternoon, fire officials said.
An evacuated family returning to check on their Markleeville home over the weekend discovered a baby burned bear cub who had suffered severe burns in the Tamarack Fire.
There was little remaining of several homes in the Plumas County community of Indian Falls except piles for smoldering rubble Monday, a grim reminder of the desperate weekend firefight waged when the Dixie and Fly wildfires merged.
Another upper atmospheric blast of monsoonal moisture was heading toward the San Francisco Bay Area Monday, bringing with it a chance of thunderstorms.
Fueled by tinder-dry trees and brush, a wall of flames from the raging Dixie Fire roared through the Plumas County town of Indian Falls Saturday evening, leaving a destructive path of charred vehicles, burned homes and shattered dreams.
As the Bootleg Fire raced across the Oregon wilderness, the weather system it generated was so violent and turbulent that it churned to life a tornado that ripped massive trees out of the ground and left them piled like used matchsticks.
