california wildfires

While there are no wildfires burning in the Bay Area as of Wednesday, smoke from fires in Del Norte and Humboldt counties and Oregon are bringing hazy skies to the Bay Area.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District on Wednesday provided an update on the wildfire smoke and poor air quality.

The bad air quality in the Bay Area is impacting the quality of life. That smoke drifting our way from wildfires near the Oregon border has people calling 911 in a panic, an air quality advisory and events shutting down. Meteorologist Jeff Ranieri and Terry McSweeney report.

Power bills for about 16 million people in Northern California will likely increase after state regulators released two rate proposals for one of the nation’s largest utilities Wednesday.

Power bills for about 16 million people in Northern California will likely increase soon. The California Public Utilities Commission released two proposed rate decisions for Pacific Gas & Electric on Wednesday.

When you see all the rain, and flooding, and rivers of mud in Southern California, it’s easy to think their fire season is over for this year. But that’s simply not the case, and even less for the Bay Area. Kris Sanchez reports.

An air quality advisory for the North Bay has been issued for Sunday, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District said.

Officials in the Northern California town of Paradise have begun installing and testing warning sirens to deploy in the event of another wildfire or other natural disaster. The sirens are nearly ready as the five-year anniversary of a fast-moving wildfire that killed 85 people and devastated the community approaches. Reliable warning systems are becoming more critical as increasingly destructive wildfires...

Rural areas near California’s border with Oregon were under evacuation orders Wednesday after gusty winds from a thunderstorm sent a lightning-sparked wildfire racing through national forest lands, authorities said.

Rural areas near California’s border with Oregon are under evacuation orders after gusty winds from a thunderstorm sent a lightning-sparked wildfire racing through national forest lands. The blaze in Siskiyou County was dubbed the Head Fire. It’s one of at least 20 fires that erupted in the Klamath National Forest. Most of the fires are tiny but the U.S. Forest...

As wildfires tear through the Hawaiian island of Maui, residents of a Northern California town are reliving their own harrowing experience with a similar conflagration.

Drone footage shows the aftermath of the devastating wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, after it swept through the city, leaving scores of people dead and thousands homeless.

The images from the Hawaii wildfires can bring back some painful memories from our own state. Last week marked two years since the Dixie Fire broke out, destroying the town of Greenville, in Plumas County. Joe Rosato Jr. visited the devastation shortly after the fire, and returned this week to see how the town is recovering two years later.

The largest wildfire burning in California generated dangerous natural phenomena known as fire whirls as it grew to more than 77,000 acres on the state’s border with Nevada.

The hot and dry months of summer bring an increased threat of fast-moving wildfires in California. See where fires are burning.

Firefighters in Yosemite on Monday were working to contain a wildfire near Half Dome that has grown to more than 800 acres, according to fire officials.

Firefighters in Yosemite on Monday were working to contain a wildfire near Half Dome that has grown to more than 800 acres, according to fire officials.

While it was a comparatively small fire back in July of 2021, state regulators recently concluded the Brewer Fire exposed sizable flaws in PG&E’s maintenance efforts, just as the utility is facing a backlog of 170,000 unfinished repairs in high-risk areas.

It was a very small fire at the time and nearly went unnoticed, but the Brewer Fire is now raising major red flags for regulators. Investigative reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports they’re concerned about flaws that were found in PG&E’s system maintenance and regulators are worried there’s a dangerous pattern at the utility company.

CalFire is heading into the summer fire season with a new tool: artificial intelligence technology.