By Dave Pehling Updated on: August 20, 2024 / 1:15 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco A fire that broke out in downtown San Jose Tuesday morning started in debris from a pair of abandoned Victorians that burned earlier this year and damaged a neighboring house, fire officials said. The Sa...
Firefighters are battling a fire at a refinery near San Francisco with officials telling people if they can smell or see smoke to go inside and close all their doors and windows. CBS News Bay Area reports. May 5 02:39 Netanyahu declares emergency in Israel as wildfires spread near Jerusalem...
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A helicopter and crew releases water to extinguish a section of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire near Middletown, California, U.S. August 24, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif By Adrees Latif MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (Reuters) - Thunderstorms rumbled over northern California again on Monday, but the ...
Caustic black water from the Eaton Fire rushes by in the Eaton Wash near Altadena, California, as an atmospheric river bring heavy rains on February 13, 2025. Residents of southern Californians are evacuating their homes because of the heavy...
shortly after the camp fire broke out, the hill fire erupted in southern california near thousand oaks. and yet another, the woolsey fire, burned 100,000 acres and destroyed at least 1,500 structures. it was no coincidence that these fires landed all at once. “literally the same air mass...
A day earlier, hurricane-force winds blew embers through the air, igniting block after block in the Los Angeles coastline neighbourhood of Pacific Palisades and about 25 miles (40km) to the east in Altadena, an unincorporated community near Pasadena. ...
(i.e., the second order trammel). This has created a dynamic whereby failure to reintroduce fire in the very near term will increase the likelihood of much more damaging wildfire (modeled crown fire) in coming decades (i.e., the threat of the third order trammel). Consequently, a ...
There’s a 50% to 70% chance of rain starting Saturday and lasting for the following two days — but also a 20% to 30% chance of thunderstorms. That could bring heavy rain in some isolated areas, and the risk of flooding near recently burned areas. ...
In 2011, Los Angeles placed near dead last in a ranking of fire department staffing for the country’s 40 largest cities. The study, conducted by a New York City labor union, reviewed metrics including the number of firefighters, stations and engines. ...