Camp Fire

Part of the rebirth of Paradise is Mayor Steve Crowder. He moved there eight years ago and was elected to the city council just days before the Camp Fire started. He lost his home and his businesses.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has marked the third anniversary of California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire by announcing that nearly 100,000 damaged trees have been removed and debris cleaned up from some 11,000 properties.

California’s wildfires have already made plenty of news this summer, and the worst may be yet to come.

California’s largest utility company has been blamed for half of the state’s most destructive fires since 2015. Now it has a plan to reduce the risk of sparks.

Firefighters are now facing more fires and more toxic smoke than ever. There is now some new evidence of more poisons in the air they breathe and even in the gear they wear.

Firefighters are now facing more fires and more toxic smoke than ever. There is now some new evidence of more poisons in the air they breathe and even in the gear they wear. Terry McSweeney reports.

Just two years after the Camp Fire took lives and leveled entire neighborhoods, the Bear Fire has some leaving town just in case and others looking for a way to help.

The Bear Fire burning across Butte County is triggering some very unwanted deja vu for thousands in the city of Paradise. Jodi Hernandez reports.

A new documentary focuses on the massive cleanup and rebuilding after the Camp Fire in Paradise, California.

Pacific Gas & Electric on Thursday was fined $4 million for the deaths of 84 people killed in a nightmarish Northern California wildfire ignited by its long-neglected electrical grid. The sentencing comes as the nation’s largest utility prepares to end a 17-month bankruptcy proceeding triggered by the catastrophe.

PG&E’s top executive pleaded guilty on behalf of the company on Tuesday to 84 counts of manslaughter in the 2018 Camp wildfire, the most destructive in state history. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

PG&E’s top executive pleaded guilty on behalf of the company on Tuesday to 84 counts of manslaughter in the 2018 Camp wildfire, the most destructive in state history.

The state Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved a $1.9 billion settlement with PG&E that allows it to get credit for wildfire prevention spending while at the same time escape being fined $200 million over regulatory violations stemming from two years of massive wildfires.

PG&E announced in San Francisco Monday that it has given up a controversial plan to pay a $4 million criminal fine to Butte County out of a proposed $13.5 billion trust to compensate wildfire victims.

Pacific Gas & Electric will plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for a swath of death and destruction left behind after its fraying electrical grid ignited a 2018 wildfire that decimated three Northern California towns and drove the nation’s largest utility into bankruptcy.

A federal court judge on Wednesday lashed out at PG&E over having missed signs of extensive wear on tower hooks just 200 feet from where a worn C-hook snapped on an aging tower and sparked the deadly Camp fire in 2018. U.S. Judge William Alsup gave the company two weeks to detail what inspectors found in a climbing inspection...

A federal court judge on Wednesday lashed out at PG&E over having missed signs of extensive wear on tower hooks just 200 feet from where a worn C-hook snapped on an aging tower and sparked the deadly Camp fire in 2018.

Alyssa Nolan knows what it feels like to lose everything. In 2008, Nolan’s home was destroyed in the Butte Complex Lightning Complex Fire. A mother with an infant at the time, Nolan remembers the helplessness she felt. She also remembers how she got back on her feet with the help of family, friends, and even complete strangers. “Part of my…

With the help of a growing number of volunteers, Alyssa Nolan has built and given away 13 tiny homes over the past year.