Vegetation Fire Extinguished Behind San Jose High School
A small vegetation fire was extinguished behind Yerba Buena High School near Kelley Park in San Jose Thursday afternoon, a fire dispatcher said.
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A small vegetation fire was extinguished behind Yerba Buena High School near Kelley Park in San Jose Thursday afternoon, a fire dispatcher said.
Firefighters have contained a vegetation fire Monday morning in South San Jose.
Returning to the scene of the devastating Valley Fire in Lake County finds people dealing with an extrremely daunting task of rebuilding their lives.
A fire weather watch goes into effect starting late Monday night for the North Bay mountains, National Weather Service officials said.
California corrections officials say that nearly 40 percent of the state's inmate firefighters have previous convictions for violent offenses.
A five-acre brush fire injured a firefighter and prompted a major response near Martinez Sunday afternoon, according to the Contra Costa Fire District.
California officials are considering allowing inmates with violent backgrounds to work outside prison walls fighting wildfires, and the idea is generating concerns about public safety.
A red flag warning for high fire danger went into affect at 6 p.m. Saturday evening and lasts until 10 a.m. Sunday.
The effort to fight wildfires in California may be making future wildfires even worse, according to a new report.
The Tassajara Fire, which burned 1,086 acres in Monterey County, has been 100 percent contained.
Students in Middletown are going back to school Monday for the first time since the devastating Valley Fire.
The Tassajara Fire in Monterey County has burned 1,086 acres and is 98 percent contained, according to information released by Cal Fire Sunday morning.
The UC Davis veterinary clinic has received more than 40 cats, along with four horses, two pigs, two chickens, a dog and a goat. The animals will be up for adoption once they recover.
Newly-released images from NASA reveal in graphic detail the massive devastation of the deadly Valley Fire that has burned 76,067 acres in Northern California.
An apparent suicide caused the wildfire burning in Monterey County last weekend that has destroyed 12 homes and 8 other buildings.
President Barack Obama declared a major disaster Tuesday in a Northern California wildfire that has destroyed at least 1,200 homes and killed at least three people.
Krystal La Plante and her boyfriend returned to the remains of their three-bedroom home to find only a ceramic drip coffee pot and one of her pottery pieces. Her little "piece of heaven," flanked by trees as high as she could see, was gone.
Monterey County sheriff's deputies arrested a man Monday evening near Jamesburg, after he attacked a firefighter in a disaster area near the Tassajara wildfire.
Ten days after it started, the Valley Fire reached a grim milestone on Monday, becoming the third most destructive wildfire in the state's history.
Crews made gains overnight on one of the worst wildfires in California history, mopping up hot spots and strengthening control lines.
The Tessajara Fire burning in Monterey County has killed one person and destroyed 10 homes. The blaze was 30 percent contained Monday morning according to Cal Fire.
A wildfire that has killed three, injured four firefighters and destroyed at least 888 single dwellings in Lake, Napa and Sonoma counties is 69 percent contained Sunday evening, Cal Fire officials said.
Displaced residents of Lake and Monterey counties who are returning to areas burned by recent wildfires should be cautious about cleaning up ash left behind by the blaze, according to the California Department of Public Health.
The Monterey County Sheriff's Office has rescheduled Sunday's plans to allow evacuees to check on their homes threatened by the 1,200-acre Tassajara Fire near unincorporated Jamesburg, sheriff's officials said.
