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Officials say damaging winds with gusts possibly up to 80 mph could lead to potential fire conditions in parts of Los Angeles and Southern California.
Firefighters from multiple departments in Sullivan County raced to the scene of the fire on Route 17B. The White Lake Fire Company, which was the lead department, said it had two engines on the ...
Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and ...
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
The once fast-moving fire has scorched more than 4,000 acres and was 30% contained by Friday morning, according to Cal Fire. The fire threatened more than 4,300 structures, destroying 14 and ...
The October 2017 Northern California wildfires, also known as the Northern California firestorm, North Bay Fires, and the Wine Country Fires [7] were a series of 250 wildfires that started burning across the state of California, United States, beginning in early October. Twenty-one became major fires that burned at least 245,000 acres (99,148 ha).
Red flag warnings are in place for Southern California due to Santa Ana winds that will bring gusts up to 65 mph and “extremely rare and dangerous” fire weather conditions.
The 2009 California wildfires were a series of 9,159 wildfires that were active in the US state of California, during the year 2009. [2] [4] The fires burned more than 422,147 acres (660 sq mi; 1,708 km 2) of land from early February through late November, [1] due to Red Flag conditions, destroying hundreds of structures, injuring 134 people, and killing four.