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 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.