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 added more than 360,000 acres in coastal Northern California to its fire hazard zones where heightened fire safety ...

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, ...

OROVILLE — The City Council gave direction Tuesday to pursue a second three-year contract with Cal Fire-Butte County for fire services within the city. The city’s three-year contract with Cal ...

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Cal Fire added over 1.2 million acres in Central California to its fire hazard severity zones. New maps for Southern ...

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.

Citing 34 stab wounds, judge orders wife/suspect in Cal Fire captain's wife death held without bail Rebecca "Becky" Marodi sought to leave her marriage shortly before she was killed, according to ...

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.

Cal Fire rolled out phase one of its updated fire hazard severity maps two weeks ago. On Monday, it released phase two, which included the Bay Area and the entire Northern California coast.

Despite public pushback, Santa Clara County’s south and central fire districts will merge — a move county officials assert saves fire service in the south county from failure, even as some ...

The number of houses, commercial structures and other buildings destroyed by the Park Fire reached 709, Cal Fire said. There were 54 structures damaged. “Damage Inspectors were able to survey ...