https://twitter.com/City_of_SLO/status/1719527814469468470 Kaytlyn Leslie, Sara Kassabian, Mackenzie Shuman, Stephanie Zappelli, and John Lynch The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) (TNS) Oct. 31—Four fires erupted in San Luis Obispo County on Monday afternoon,...
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Maui police held a news conference on Monday to show 16 minutes of body camera footage taken the day a wildfire tore through Lahaina town in August, including video of officers rescuing 15 people from a coffee shop and...
Jeremy Childs Los Angeles Times (TNS) A brush fire in Riverside County exploded to scorch more than 1,200 acres on Monday, closing roads and prompting evacuation orders that grew along with the size of the fire. Firefighters were facing gusty winds and relatively low...
Steven Mayer The Bakersfield Californian (TNS) Oct. 28—The physical training was rigorous, fighting fires in remote wilderness was dangerous, and jumping out of perfectly good airplanes in the vicinity of burning forest and brush fires may have been a tad crazy. But...
Emily Holshouser - Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif. Oct. 26—Gusty Santa Ana winds and dry conditions spelling heightened wildfire danger are forecast for Southern California starting Saturday night and continuing into early next week, according to the National...
Tristan Baurick - The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Oct. 23—Firefighters hope flooding a New Orleans East swamp will finally put out a fire that has cast noxious-smelling smoke over the city and combined with fog to snarl traffic and may have contributed...
Colleen Heild - Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Oct. 23—In the summer of 2022, Jimmy and Linda Cummings traveled to one of their favorite places on earth, in the forest of northern New Mexico. Linda's mother, Betty Greenhaw, 84, went along for the annual summer trip to the...
Jaclyn Cosgrove Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Volunteer brigades will help their neighbors prepare for wildfires and other disasters in an area devastated by the 2018 Woolsey fire as part of a new program approved by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. At...
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric — one of the nation's largest utilities whose equipment has sparked some of California's deadliest wildfires — wants to bury power lines in some of its most at-risk areas to prevent...
Andrew Gomes The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (TNS) Oct. 15—The company, in its wildfire mitigation plan produced in January and filed with the PUC Oct. 2, said it took up a proactive approach to such risk based on devastating California wildfires in 2018 and its own...
Gillian Brassil - McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Nearly five years ago, Congress told the U.S. Air Force to convert seven surplus Coast Guard aircraft into firefighting tankers for California’s fire protection agency. It never finished the job. Now,...
PK Hattis - Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif. Oct. 11—SANTA CRUZ — Fire crews, decked out in bright yellow suits and helmets to match, dotted the parched meadowland at Wilder Ranch State Park Wednesday, methodically igniting light brown blankets of grass with orange flame...
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