Photographers Catch SoCal Arson Suspect Running From Fire
Photographers in Southern California sprang into action when they saw a brush fire.
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Photographers in Southern California sprang into action when they saw a brush fire.
Fifty-seven-year-old Eric Wamser of Foresthill was arrested Friday on suspicion of interfering with firefighting operations.
Tire failure may be to blame for a firetruck rollover crash that killed two federal firefighters and injured a third on a remote highway.
A brush fire that burned to the edges of homes in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains north of Los Angeles was 20 percent contained Sunday.
Two houses sustained roof damage and the fire burned roughly one-half acre of vegetation.
Authorities say cooler temperatures overnight helped firefighters battling several wildfires in Northern and central California.
Crews made progress against a wildfire that killed two people and destroyed 200 homes as it tore through mountain communities near Lake Isabella in Kern County.
A voracious and deadly wildfire in central California has burned 150 homes, and the toll may rise, fire officials say.
All lanes of westbound I-580 near Grant Line Road were blocked as firefighters battle three brush fires.
Crews are busy counting the homes incinerated by a fire raging through rural communities around Lake Isabella in Kern County.
A vast and voracious wildfire that has burned at least 80 homes in central California killed an elderly couple as they tried to flee, authorities said.
Officials in California say they're preparing to use large air-blasting incinerators to burn up trees killed by drought and a beetle epidemic ravaging Sierra Nevada forests
The Sherpa Fire, a four-day-old blaze that threatens coastal homes in Santa Barbara County, was 45 percent contained by midday Saturday.
Officials say a wildfire burning in a rural and largely agricultural section of California's Central Coast is now 40 percent contained.
Cal Fire officials said a wildfire burning Sunday evening in unincorporated Monterey County has grown to 800 acres.
California, Hawaii, Alaska and the Southwest face an above-average threat of wildfires this summer, but most of the country should see normal or below-normal problems, forecasters said Sunday.
A wildfire burned about five acres of grassy sand dunes in the unincorporated Dillon Beach area of Marin County Friday night.
Marin County water district maintenance crews are carefully burning piles of dead brush, reducing the fuel load above reservoirs in advance of the summer fire season.
Thirty-nine-year-old Wayne Allen Huntsman pleaded guilty Friday to three counts of felony arson in the September 2014 King Fire.
California's new corrections chief is backing off a plan to lower standards for inmate firefighters.
Months after the Valley Fire killed 4 and wiped out 1,300 homes in Lake County, residents face personal and logistical hurdles that put full recovery years away.
The fire was first reported late Friday night and spread rapidly as winds in excess of 50 mph spread embers and fanned flames.
You can spread some green holiday cheer this season by helping the victims of the Valley Fire with your Christmas tree, once you're done with it.
California lawmakers focused Wednesday on power lines as a cause of devastating wildfires, possibly including a blaze this summer that killed two people and damaged or destroyed 965 structures in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
A wildfire that burned for more than three months, becoming one of the largest blazes in state history, is finally contained.
