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Okanogan assistant chief was burned in a wildfire     The U.S. Fire Administration has announced the official on-duty death of Assistant Fire Chief Christian Dean Johnson, 55, of Okanogan Fire Department/Okanogan County Fire District 3 on October 2, 2019. ...

Cause of Saddle Ridge Fire under investigation     By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A destructive fire that exploded on the edge of Los Angeles began beneath a high-voltage transmission tower owned by ...

Evacuation orders were lifted in all of Los Angeles County     By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three people have died at the scene of Southern California wildfires this week, authorities said ...

Governor Newsom criticized the utility blackouts     By BRIAN MELLEY and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even as the winds gusted dangerously as forecast, California’s biggest utility faced hostility and second-guessing Thursday for shutting off ...

PG&E found 30 instances of weather-related damage     By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The lights were back on Friday for most of the nearly 2 million Northern California residents who lost electricity when the ...

The Saddleridge fire started on the 10th at 9:03 P.M.     It is located near Yarnell Road exit off Interstate 210. As of 8:30 am, the fire is 4,700 acres with 0% containment. Angeles National Forest is in unified ...

Elderly woman missing as fire moves into Calimesa     By STEFANIE DAZIO AND CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press CALIMESA, Calif. (AP) — Don Turner’s 89-year-old mother was missing Thursday night after a wind-driven wildfire sparked by burning trash swept through ...

Fire burned 60 acres in two hours     MORAGA, Calif. (AP) — Police have ordered evacuations as a fast-moving wildfire spreads in the hills of a San Francisco Bay Area community. Moraga-Orinda firefighters responded to the scene near the ...

Fire danger leads to largest outage in state history     By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses went out early Wednesday, affecting millions of people in California. Pacific ...

PG&E cuts power to prevent wildfires     By BRIAN MELLEY and TERENCE CHEA Associated Press SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Millions of Californians played a waiting game with the winds Thursday as Pacific Gas & Electric watched the weather before ...