In some areas, hazards have surged. Buildings in the highest severity zones will be subject to the strictest fire-resiliency ...

By Jeremia Kimelman, CalMatters In just a single month, 2025 is the second most destructive fire year in California history, ...

These agencies include local fire departments run by municipalities, which contain firefighters trained not only in urban, or ...

The 25-year-old artist is also a seasonal wildland firefighter ... The following year, she helped Cal Fire fight blazes in Yosemite National Park. It was then she painted her second mural ...

All 8 MAFFS C-130s assigned to the aerial firefighting mission were launched in support to CAL FIRE wildland firefighting operations in Southern California. Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems ...

Within hours, the blaze had burned across more than 10,000 acres (41sq km), the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said. They added that the fire is at 14% containment.

The 10,176-acre fire was at 14% containment as of 7:43 a.m., according to Cal Fire. Officials ordered thousands of people to leave their homes on Wednesday, and most of the orders are still in place.

CalFire engineer Nima Valleiy, from CalFire San Diego Crew 1, directs a group of firefighters as they work to make a fire break in an effort to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del ...

With Tijuana just miles from San Diego, CBS 8 spoke to Cal Fire Capt. Robert Johnson about their response when it comes to fires near the border. “We work with firefighters in Mexico," Johnson said.

"These were reductions to one-time augmentations, not reductions to CalFire's [California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection] ongoing base programs and funding," Rachel Ehlers, analyst for ...