Wildfires

Firefighting personnel from the Bay Area and Central Fire District were sent to assist in protecting communities from the Bootleg Fire in Oregon.

Berkeley officials announced that they will greatly increase their fire safety spendings.

The number of wildfires and amount of land burned in parched California so far this year greatly exceed totals for the same period in disastrous 2020.

The 31-year-old was part of an inmate crew fighting a vegetation fire caused by illegal fireworks late Sunday in the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Shingle Springs east of Sacramento, said California’s corrections and firefighting agencies, which jointly oversee the inmate firefighters.

A vehicle fire along Kirker Pass Road in Concord spread to nearby vegetation Sunday afternoon, sparking a fire that grew to 35-acres in size before crews could gain control.

Firefighters are battling home-destroying blazes in Northern California as officials in the drought-stricken state warn Fourth of July crowds against illegal fireworks and untended fires.

A vegetation fire has spread to 35 acres near the Callippe Preserve south of Pleasanton, Cal Fire says. 

Last year, California wildfires scorched more than 6,562 square miles of land, the most in its recorded history.

President Joe Biden met with governors from Western states Wednesday to discuss what is shaping up to be a torrid wildfire season and announce among other things that Sonoma County will be receiving $37 million in wildfire mitigation funds.

The Siskiyou County Sheriff said the man was trying to drive into the Mount Shasta Vista subdivision on Monday and pointed a handgun at the group of officers that included a sheriff’s deputy and local police.

Firefighters with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District and Cal Fire say they've stopped forward progress on 40-acre brush fire that began Sunday afternoon near Bay Point.

The Earth is now trapping twice as much heat as it was in 2005. As a result, wildfires are burning larger areas for longer periods of time.

Insurers have been taking a hard look at the millions of Californians who live in areas with a very high risk of wildfires, especially in recent years when a series of costly fires incinerated thousands of rural homes.

Firefighters have contained a quarter-acre wildfire in San Jose Wednesday evening, officials with Cal Fire say. 

The pre-holiday-season has already become a nightly illegal fireworks show all over California, sometimes with devastating consequences.