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The Butte Fire was a rapidly moving wildfire during the 2015 California wildfire season that started on September 9 in Amador County, California. [1] The fire burned 70,868 acres (287 km 2 ). The fire started at 2:26 P.M. on Wednesday, September 9, just east of Jackson , when a tree came into contact with a power line, and quickly grew to over ...
There are two CAL FIRE training centers. The original academy is the CAL FIRE Training Center in Ione, east of Sacramento. The second academy is at the Ben Clark Training Center in Riverside. Both centers host the Fire Fighter Academy (FFA). All CAL FIRE Fire Protection employees go through this academy once they become permanent employees.
The National Interagency Fire Center reported in mid-August that the 2015 fire season had been the most destructive since 2011.Nationwide, a total of 6,058,694 acres (24,519 km 2) had burned, which is roughly triple the total land area burned from the same time span in 2014. [6]
Cal Fire listed the fire at 71,489 acres Thursday afternoon, with 3% containment. Residents in northeast Chico, Forest Ranch and some smaller mountain areas, including the hamlet of Cohasset, have ...
Cal Fire’s Butte unit said in initial social media posts Monday evening that the fire, first reported at 30 acres, was burning with a “dangerous rate of spread.” The fire within two hours ...
On December 6, 2019, in an effort to avert the trial, [17] PG&E proposed to settle the wildfire victim claims for a total of $13.5 billion, which would cover liability for its responsibility originating from the Camp Fire, Butte Fire, and also a series of wildfires beginning on October 8, 2017, collectively called the 2017 North Bay Fires. [108]
The Butte County Sheriff’s Office ordered residents in part of Palermo to leave after a blaze called the Grubbs Fire sparked several miles south of the Thompson Fire, a 3,500-acre blaze that ...
The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California's Butte County was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The fire began on the morning of Thursday, November 8, 2018, when part of a poorly maintained Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong katabatic winds.