MARTINEZ — Chronic issues with Contra Costa County’s Community Warning System (CWS) have sparked fears for years that alerts about wildfires, refinery incidents, earthquakes and other dangers will fail to …
Firefighters got a jump on fighting the massive Park Fire over the weekend, increasing containment to 34% by Monday morning, but the blaze’s activity is expected to increase this week …
Fueled by high heat and dry conditions, major wildfires continued to burn across thousands of acres of wildland near Boulder, Loveland, Lyons and in Jefferson County on Wednesday, killing at …
The Park Fire, which has burned more than 383,000 acres across Butte and Tehama counties, became the fifth largest wildfire in California history, reaching 14% containment as of noon Tuesday, …
After two relatively mild years, California is off to its most severe wildfire season in 16 years. “It’s the earliest intense fire season statewide that we’ve had in a long …
The Creek Fire, burning in the Sunol area of Alameda County, reached 75% containment and had burned through 744 acres as of Wednesday morning, according to Cal Fire. The fire …
Fire crews have managed to slightly widen containment of a vast and destructive arson-triggered fire that has scorched portions of four counties in Northern California, state officials said Tuesday night. …
The Park Fire — now the sixth-largest fire in the state’s recorded history — continued to burn Monday with low levels of activity, but fire officials expected it to flare …
In darkness, dust and smoke amid the chaotic escape of dozens of rural Butte County residents from the exploding Park Fire on Wednesday night, a pair of Rottweilers and their …
The Park Fire is currently the largest fire in California right now, with more than 350,000 acres burned as of Sunday. It has destroyed 134 structures including one wildfire camera …