Wragg Fire Near Napa Valley Slows; Some Evacuations Lifted
A wildfire burning near Napa Valley wine country had calmed enough that many were allowed to return to previously threatened homes, officials said.
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A wildfire burning near Napa Valley wine country had calmed enough that many were allowed to return to previously threatened homes, officials said.
Police on Thursday arrested a 13-year-old in connection with started a brush fire that burned about five acres in Pacifica.
A wildfire has led to the closure of a major highway between Sacramento and Reno, Nevada, and brought a handful of mandatory evacuations.
A brush fire that has burned approximately five acres in Pacifica is 10 percent contained Thursday evening, according to fire officials.
Firefighters allowed a small brush fire to consume roughly 20 acres of vegetation on Wednesday after responding to the same location near Bay Point for the third time in recent weeks, a fire official said Thursday.
A fast-moving wildfire in Napa and Solano counties has grown by 2,000 acres overnight and now has scorched over 9 square miles of countryside near Lake Berryessa.
A fast-moving wildfire near Lake Berryessa has scorched at least 6,000 acres as of late Wednesday night, prompting the evacuations of nearly 200 homes.
A grass fire has blocked the right lane of eastbound Interstate Highway 80 at the interchange of northbound Interstate Highway 505 Wednesday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A deer's desperate attempt to escape as it was surrounded by the flames of a brush fire in the Sunol area Monday.
Crews in Alameda County were battling a three-alarm grass fire near Highway 680 in Sunol, according to CalFire.
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A wildfire that swept across a busy Southern California freeway, sending people running for their lives, was calmed by rain Saturday, allowing some crews to be shifted to another blaze that forced hundreds of campers to evacuate.
About 3,500 acres were burned and 20 cars were destroyed by a fast-moving grass fire on both sides of the Cajon Pass in San Bernardino County on Friday.
A two-alarm fire is burning in San Jose Sunday afternoon, according to the San Jose Fire Department and California Highway Patrol.
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Both California and federal fire agencies teamed up Friday to deliver a strong message to the public: don't fly drones over wildfires.
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Firefighters are working to put out a grass fire burning in Danville Tuesday afternoon, Cal Fire officials said.
There have been no reports of any injuries Tuesday morning from a vegetation fire that has burned 150 acres since it began Monday morning in a remote area near Vacaville, according to Cal Fire.
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Several homes were threatened, but no structures were burned.
A 2-alarm fire is burning in the vicinity of the Oakland California Temple, a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A brush fire was burning near the Sunol Regional Wilderness Thursday morning in Alameda County, according Cal Fire.
A wildfire burning near a historic mission in a rural area of Lompoc has prompted authorities to order the evacuation of approximately 1,200 people.
A wildfire near San Jose Sunday afternoon has so far consumed roughly 81 acres of vegetation and was still burning Sunday evening, a Cal Fire official said.
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