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Engines fall under two categories, either being state-owned — mostly wildland, or city/county owned, which CAL FIRE operates under contract. [21] For the wildland portion, most engines are manufactured with West-Mark or Westates (now American Truck & Fire Apparatus) bodies on an International chassis. Commonly seen models of wildland engines ...
The Fresno Air Attack Base is an aerial firefighting base established in 1955 by the United States Forest Service (USFS) at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport.The USFS also leases space at the base to CAL FIRE, which keeps a tactical (spotter) aircraft at the base and also uses the facilities to refuel and reload retardant on air tankers and helicopters when fighting fires in the area.
The two versions of Engine 51, the 1965 Crown Firecoach (assigned as Engine #60; the final open-cab fire engine of Los Angeles) and the 1973 Ward LaFrance (donated to Universal for filming use) are now owned by the County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association and have been fully restored.
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
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Bobby Bonds – former Fresno Giants player, 3-time MLB All-Star; Frenchy Bordagaray – MLB baseball player; Bruce Bowen – former NBA player, San Antonio Spurs; Johnny Boyd – AAA and USAC Champ Car driver; Gregory "Pappy" Boyington – World War II ace, retired in Fresno; Ernest K. Bramblett – politician; Lee Brand – mayor of Fresno
Former Fresno County Superior Court Judge Adolfo Corona, shown in 2005, has been charged with sexual assault. (Fresno Bee) Corona was appointed to the bench in 2003 by then-Gov. Gray Davis.
The 2020 Creek Fire was a very large wildfire in central California's Sierra National Forest, in Fresno and Madera counties. One of the most significant fires of California's record-setting 2020 wildfire season, it began on September 4, 2020, and burned 379,895 acres (153,738 ha) over several months until it was declared 100% contained on December 24, 2020.