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The 2014 King Fire was a large wildfire in El Dorado County, California, which burned 97,717 acres (39,545 hectares) primarily in the Eldorado National Forest. The wildfire started on September 13, 2014, near Pollock Pines, California, to the east of Sacramento. The ensuing fire suppression effort, which cost more than $100 million and engaged ...
About 30 miles inland, the Eaton Fire prompted authorities to warn of "an immediate threat to life" in Altadena, near Pasadena. And the Hurst Fire, in the San Fernando Valley northwest of downtown ...
Size: 23,713 acres Containment: 18% Cause: Under investigation Tuesday marked one week since the deadly fires broke out in the Los Angeles area in Southern California and the fight is far from over.
As thousands of people fled from fires that tore through Los Angeles County this month, you may have wondered about the wildfire risk in your area. While wildfires have primarily been associated ...
The data collected by FIRMS are presented as a free web mapping service, with the active fire locations if any overlaid on a map. [1] The detections are displayed on top of a static background layer and each visualized detection is clickable to display its data, such as detection time, coordinates, satellite and instrument.
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The Eaton Fire ignited Tuesday night near a canyon in the sprawling national forest lands north of downtown Los Angeles and had exploded to 14,117 acres by Friday night and was 3%, according to ...
The South Canyon Fire was a 1994 wildfire that took the lives of 14 wildland firefighters on Storm King Mountain, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1994. It is often also referred to as the "Storm King" fire. It was the subject of John Maclean's book Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire.