In addition, the Governor will direct the CAL FIRE – Office of the State ... equipped for night operations, expanded five helitack bases, and assumed ownership of seven C-130 air tankers ...

Areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they happen? What is being ...

Firefighters from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection battle the Sugar fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex fire, in Doyle, Calif., in 2021. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) ...

February 15, 2025 – CAL FIRE officials show how traditional tribal fire practices benefit, restore, and strengthen the land. For millennia, California Indigenous communities have used cultural ...

PLACER COUNTY, Calif. --On Saturday video was released by CAL FIRE of Monday's mine-shaft rescue. A 16-year-old boy found himself stuck down a vertical mine shaft when he and his buddies were out ...

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BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. – The CAL FIRE Butte County Swiftwater Rescue team jumped into action to rescue two 8-month-old huskies on its one-of-a-kind call. "We were all super happy that it went smoothly ...

Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

Update January 29, 2025 9 a.m.-- The Border 2 Fire is now 90% contained, as rain helped firefighters' efforts. Cal Fire says there is no risk to the public or structure threats. Update January ...

See the full forecast here. An interactive map from Cal Fire gives a look at current weather and fire conditions across the state. The map also outlines evacuation warnings and orders near ...

"The astonishing thing is not that Los Angeles burns but that so much of its development has enhanced rather than blunted the threat from fire," Pyne wrote last month. Currently a professor ...