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The fire had charred 3,000 acres by Wednesday morning, 1,000 more acres than conditions about 6 p.m. Tuesday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center’s Northern California operations ...
The Sites Fire burns in Colusa County, California, as seen by a Cal Fire camera on Saint John Mountain shortly after 3:15 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2024. Cal Fire officials said the fire was spreading ...
Oroville is no stranger to devastating fires, including the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 and displaced roughly 50,000 others. The 2020 Bear Fire had taken the home of Thompson's neighbors. "We've ...
The fire sparked at 10:51 a.m. on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, near Cherokee Road and Thompson Flat Cemetery Road. [7] Within six hours, the fire grew from 15 acres (6.1 ha) to over 2,100 acres (850 ha), causing Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, declared a state of emergency in Butte County.
On lands under CAL FIRE's jurisdictional protection (i.e. not federal or local responsibility areas), the majority of wildfire ignitions since 1980 have been caused by humans. The four most common ignition sources for wildfires on CAL FIRE-protected lands are, in order: equipment use, powerlines, arson, and lightning. [10]
Cal Fire credited quick work by residents and firefighters to stop their spread and later thanked residents “for their vigilance and information” leading to the arrest. Show comments Advertisement
The LNU Lightning Complex fires were a large complex of wildfires that burned during the 2020 California wildfire season across much of the Wine Country area of Northern California – Lake, Napa, Sonoma, Solano, and Yolo Counties, from August 17 to October 2, 2020.
The blaze fully engulfed the 135,000-square foot main building of Ampine, a timber products company, the Amador Fire Protection District said in an updated news release Monday evening. A fire that ...