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Two wildfires ignited early Tuesday in San Diego, California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. The Lilac Fire had burned about 20 acres at a moderate rate of speed and was zero percent contained, Cal Fire’s San Diego department said in a statement posted on social medi...
Multiple fires that began in San Diego County have been contained, but the largest Border 2 Fire remains active with at least 20 acres burned. The sun rises over homes destroyed by the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Jan. 16, 2025. ...
After being on the front lines, crews come back to what looks like a mass campsite to recharge. They have barracks for sleeping and there are showers and food for first responders. Enzo Aranda with the San Diego facilities department, looks out from his tent in the first responder's tent...
Until the Palisades and Eaton fires this year, the largest had been the Viejas Fire, which burned 17.1 square miles (44.3 square kilometers) in 2001 in the mountains east of San Diego. “Winter wildfires should be an oxymoron,” University of Colorado'...
California is desperate to make up the rain necessary to tamp down its lingering wildfire threat. Los Angeles and San Diego, which have missed out on more than 5 inches of typical rain since October, should see soaking rain after dark. ...
seeing rain, it just doesn’t take much. The vegetation is just starving for moisture, and then when you get the wind on top of it, there’s definitely potential for fire behavior” after an ignition, said Alex Tardy, meteorologist with the National Weather Service ...
That makes it the fifth deadliest wildfire in state history, leaping over three fires that each caused 15 deaths -- the Rattlesnake Fire of 1953 in Northern California, the 2003 Cedar Fire in San Diego, and the 2020 North Complex Fire in Northern California's Butte, Plumas and Yuba ...
California has “some of the strongest wildfire building codes in North America,” said Judson Boomhower, a University of California San Diego professor who’s studied the requirements. “It’s quite clear when you look at the post-incident data that those codes really have had quite an effect...