Nelson Fire That Burned 2,000 Acres by I-80 Contained
A grass fire that burned one home and scorched 2,162 acres near Interstate 80 in Fairfield is completely contained as of Sunday morning.
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A grass fire that burned one home and scorched 2,162 acres near Interstate 80 in Fairfield is completely contained as of Sunday morning.
Import tariffs imposed by Pres. Trump are adding thousands of dollars to the cost of building homes, squeezing homeowners seeking to rebuild quickly after losing their houses to wildfires.
A grass fire that burned one home and scorched 1,000 acres near I-80 in Fairfield was 65 percent contained as of Saturday morning, according to Cal Fire.
Police said officers are evacuating residents in Fairfield and Vacaville as a vegetation fire burned along Interstate 80 Friday night.
After the Ferguson Fire shut down Yosemite Valley more than two weeks ago, park officials have announced a reopening date.
The massive Mendocino Complex Fire in Northern California is now 60 percent contained, as firefighters enter their third week of battling what has become the largest wildfire in state history.
This isn't the first time smoke from the western wildfires is spreading all the way to the East Coast.
A man charged with starting a Southern California wildfire that has burned 12 cabins and forced at least 20,000 people from their homes refused to go to court Thursday.
A heavy equipment operator assigned to the Cal Fire crews battling the Carr Fire was killed Thursday in a traffic accident, authorities said.
Smoky air from blowing winds is nothing new in California, but air quality experts say it's rare for the dirty air to linger for so long, a reality of ever-larger fires that take longer to extinguish.
Cal Fire officials have issued a ban on all outdoor burning due to extreme fire conditions from Contra Costa County to Santa Clara County and western San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties.
Wildfire victims from the Bay Area rallied at the California State Capitol Wednesday to push back against a plan to shield utility companies from financial liability in large fires.
The Mendocino Complex Fire, already the largest wildfire in California history, reached another destructive milestone overnight.
The tight-knit neighborhood, almost wiped from the map by the monstrous blaze that swept in early last October, is on its way back.
After becoming the largest wildfire in California history, containment of the massive Mendocino Complex fire in Northern California is not expected until September.
Even the White House can't explain President Donald Trump's tweets suggesting California environmental laws have worsened wildfires raging in that state.
A Northern California school district is delaying the start of school because of smoke damage from a wildfire that is now the largest in state history.
Some 14,000 firefighters, including inmate volunteers, are battling 18 major blazes burning thousands of square miles throughout California with aircraft, assorted vehicles and picks and shovels.
The raging Mendocino Complex wildfire that has scorched more than 283,000 acres is now the biggest blaze in modern California history.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is extending an air quality advisory through this Thursday because of possible smoke impacts in the region.
Authorities say three men tending to a marijuana grow were arrested after they refused to leave a fire evacuation zone in Northern California, hindering firefighters' efforts against a massive blaze.
The massive Mendocino Complex fire grew to become the second largest in California history over the weekend, threatening more than 9,000 structures.
Officials say a utility worker has been killed near the Carr Fire in Shasta County, the seventh fatality in that still-uncontained blaze.
A pair of large wildfires burning in Northern California known as the Mendocino Complex has expanded forcing new evacuations in Lake and Colusa Counties.
Cal Fire crews were helping battle a vegetation fire about six miles southeast of the unincorporated community of Sunol in Alameda County.
