CalFire

As California faces yet another dry year and fire season approaches, Cal Fire suspended backyard burns in Santa Cruz County.

One clear sign the Bay Area’s rainy season is starting is when CalFire starts shifting its training to water rescues. On Wednesday, helicopter crews known as Helitack, began training with other agencies to deal with the risks that come with the changing weather. Robert Handa reports.

One clear sign the Bay Area’s rainy season is starting is when CalFire starts shifting its training to water rescues. On Wednesday, helicopter crews known as Helitack, began training with other agencies to deal with the risks that come with the changing weather.

A CalFire captain died in a hiking accident at Pfeiffer Burns State Park near Big Sur.

California is calling in the National Guard for the first time next month to help protect communities from devastating fires like the one that largely destroyed the city of Paradise last fall.

It was a day that was almost unfathomable. An entire town was burned off the map of California. Nearly 14,000 homes were incinerated. All told, 85 people would perish. The oldest was 99; of the 73 bodies that have been identified, 59 were 65 or older. One hundred days later — with the aid of public records showing the locations...

Poor communication, short staffing and infighting among agencies may have endangered firefighters who nearly died during the massive Mendocino Complex of wildfires in Northern California, according to a report released Friday.

Snow made it to the Bay Area on Monday. As the National Weather Service predicted, snow was falling in some of the region’s higher elevations such as Mount Diablo in the East Bay. Jodi Hernandez reports.

In the small northern California community of Keswick, only a handful of homes remain. The air is thick with the smell of smoke and chemicals. The rubble of people’s lives still smoldered a day after the so-called Carr Fire moved through Shasta County like a freight train.

Firefighters battling a deadly wildfire in Northern California kept it from doing more damage to the city of Redding but three smaller communities were in danger as flames closed in and residents packed up to leave. Melissa Colorado reports.

A wildfire that roared with little warning into Northern California’s Shasta County has claimed two lives as thousands of people scrambled to escape before the walls of flames descended from forested hills onto their neighborhoods, officials said Friday. The blaze grew to 75 square miles by Friday night and had leveled at least 500 structures and burned 48,312 acres, leaving...

As the Carr Fire continues to spread through Redding, Bay Area fire departments are on their way to help, feeling the worst kind of déjà vu as firefighters say the fire is eerily similar to the North Bay fires that ripped through neighborhoods less than a year ago.

As the Carr Fire continues to spread through Redding, Bay Area fire departments are on their way to help, feeling the worst kind of déjà vu as firefighters say the fire is eerily similar to the North Bay fires that ripped through neighborhoods less than a year ago. Christie Smith reports.

According to Cal Fire, 95 percent of wildfires in California are sparked by humans in one way or another.

Alpine residents who lost homes and property to the West Fire will begin to receive help Monday as San Diego County officials open a Local Assistance Center at the Alpine Library.

A brush fire burning in San Diego’s East County has destroyed several structures and prompted the evacuation of most of the foothill community of Alpine.

Loved ones and firefighters from around California gathered in Point Loma Saturday to celebrate the life of fallen San Diego County firefighter Cory Iverson, killed while battling the Thomas Fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties that by Friday had become the largest fire in recorded state history.

A San Diego County firefighter died of smoke inhalation and thermal injuries while battling the massive Thomas Fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, a medical examiner determined Saturday.

The Thomas Fire grew to 143,000 acres on Friday in steep terrain of Ventura County as firefighters worked to contain the 16th largest fire in state history.