Firefighters battled a wildland blaze in Sonoma County on Sunday but said they were making progress against the fast-expanding flames. The Cougar Fire had consumed 40 acres as of 2:23 …
By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Claudia Lauer | Associated Press HONOLULU — The wind pushed flames from house to house as a group of neighbors tried to escape their blazing …
MARTINEZ — Inspired by a colleague’s idea — an ultimately unsuccessful concept of using sound or puffs of air to control fire – Dr. Waleed S. Haddad considered another tactic: …
DAVIS — A frozen forest, preserved as tiny seeds packed in tall stacks of labeled boxes, holds the future of California‘s scorched woodlands. With wildfires consuming trees at an alarming …
Associated Press SAN BERNARDINO — Evacuations were expanded Saturday as a wildfire with leaping flames scorched the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles, amid a days-long heat …
A fast-moving wildfire in the Tahoe National Forest prompted evacuations in Sierra County on Sunday afternoon, authorities said. According to the U.S. Forest Service, the Bear Fire was first reported …
Imagine this: Under an orange ash-filled sky, intensely hot wildfire flames engulf a freshly evacuated wooden farmhouse. The inferno swallows trees, bushes and wildlife, spreading quickly across the horizon. Hours …
MARTINEZ — Chronic issues with Contra Costa County’s Community Warning System (CWS) have sparked fears for years that alerts about wildfires, refinery incidents, earthquakes and other dangers will fail to …
Firefighters got a jump on fighting the massive Park Fire over the weekend, increasing containment to 34% by Monday morning, but the blaze’s activity is expected to increase this week …
The Park Fire, which has burned more than 383,000 acres across Butte and Tehama counties, became the fifth largest wildfire in California history, reaching 14% containment as of noon Tuesday, …