Cal Fire knew its model couldn’t account for extreme wind-driven fires like Eaton, but decided that more complex approaches were not developed enough to rely on.

Cal Fire has been deploying drones armed with 'aerial firing devices' igniting backfires in the battle to halt the advancing flames of the Dixie Fire, which had grown to 217,581 acres and was 23 ...

Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in jurisdictions where the state will apply stricter fire-safety building requirements.

The air tanker is a retrofitted C-130 plane that Cal Fire obtained from the U.S. Coast Guard. ... This first C-130 to be deployed is a 1985 model cargo plane, ...

A screen grab from the video shows the Cal Fire crew of a C-130 Hercules practicing water drops. The state’s primary firefighting agency has added C-130s to its fleet.

A German Lego designer is hoping his creation to honor the men and women of Cal Fire gets enough support to become an actual toy. Adrien Pecquet created a Lego version of the Cal Fire Hawk, a ...

Cal Fire crews undergoing training to battle nighttime blazes 02:17 Cal Fire recently conducted its largest-scale night exercise to date, equipping crews to continue firefights well into the night ...