Lightning sparks new fires in CaliforniaBy TERRY COLLINS
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lightning has sparked nine wildfires in the northeastern corner of California, and a stubborn blaze to the west in Mendocino County continues to challenge crews. Fire officials say the new fires in Lassen, Modoc and Shasta counties are not threatening any structures, but c...
California has a new firefighting toolThe first heatwave of the summer put California back in wildfire season. With it came a new preventative fire retardant marketed as a way to protect against fires before they happen.Jul 4, 2023 embed code copied ...
Most of the East Coast has seen little rainfall since September, and experts say the fires will persist until significant precipitation or frosts occur. In California, firefighters made further progress against a blaze in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles, that broke out We...
California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a statewide emergency because of the fires and the state's largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, has been imposing rolling blackouts in the northern and central parts of the state in a bid to reduce the fire risk. ...
More than 170 wildfires burned 245,000 acres in Northern California last October. Cal Fire blamed 12 of those fires on PG&E's "electric power and distribution lines, conductors and the failure of power poles" — when tree limbs fell on power lines.PG&E rebuts this. "Based on the informatio...
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Brown said that the unusually forceful and sustained Santa Ana winds and a hot, dry fire season extending into Christmas in Southern California, have led to the widespread and devastating fires. The Santa Ana winds are strong, extremely dry down-slope winds that originate inland and affect coasta...
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Fennessy said climate change has made even small fires that once would have been easily contained into extreme threats to life and property throughout the West. As night fell, fire officials in New Mexico said the fastest-moving flames along the eastern front of the Sangre de Cristo range on...