Another 561-acre burn is planned near the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo on Thursday, June 12, Cal Fire said. (This story was updated to add a video.) ...

They would apply in regions considered at high risk of wildfires or defended by CAL FIRE, ... But vegetation is far harder to model. ... Traeger has their Pro Series 34 wood pellet grill on sale ...

A Cal Fire spokesperson told NBC 7 Investigates that in hindsight, officials should have done more to warn the community. “You cannot shut a fire station down. Ever.” Lane said.

As a result, if Cal Fire were to re-run the model with the most recent data, fire hazard severity zones would expand in the subdivision, Sapsis said. But Cal Fire won’t re-run the model and ...

keeton brookins/cal fire shasta trinity unit, air tactical group supervisor: "it's very beneficial to have and this helps slow it down and allow ground resources some time,we're buying time." ...

Cal Fire crews retrofitted the huge plane — whose 133-foot wingspan is a little larger than that of a modern Boeing 737 — to carry 4,000 gallons of fire retardant, more than triple the ...

Cal Fire is preparing for a challenging wildfire season in Northern California, deploying resources including a second retrofitted C-130 Hercules air tanker. Meteorologists are predicting hotter ...

The authority also is leading large scale projects such as the Ross Valley shaded fuel break, an envisioned 34-mile line of defense that crosses 11 jurisdictions. After 18 months of work, 22 miles ...

Apr. 3—As the threat of catastrophic wildfire continues, state leaders turned their attention to Marin County, where fire managers recently put on display a voter-approved wildfire prevention ...

The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood zone maps, and they don’t evaluate risk, said Cal Fire. Instead, the maps evaluate hazard, or the “physical conditions that create a ...

Cal Fire has issued a fire hazard severity zone map for Sacramento County, rating nearly 78,000 acres under some threat from wildfires. It’s the first significant change to the state’s ...

A Cal Fire captain was fatally stabbed at her home in Ramona Monday in what San Diego County Sheriff’s Department officials are investigating as a suspected homicide.