A vegetation fire burning in a rural area of western San Mateo County consumed about 20 acres Tuesday afternoon, according to Cal Fire.
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Agencies that responded to last month’s Edgewood Fire that burned 10 acres along Interstate 280 in Woodside discussed the details of what coul…
Six people were displaced early Tuesday morning after a fire tore through a two-story home in Daly City, authorities said.
A vehicle fire that spread to vegetation shut down Interstate 280 in both directions south of Farm Hill Boulevard and several major roads near…
Four homes have been destroyed by a wildfire sweeping through central Oregon, where thousands of residents remained under evacuation orders. Meanwhile, a blaze in Northern California wine country has so far spared some of the state's most famous vineyards. On Monday, the Flat Fire was threatening hundreds of houses in Oregon's Deschutes and Jefferson counties. A heat advisory was in place through Wednesday, and forecasters warned that potential thunderstorms could create erratic winds that would challenge firefighters. The Pickett Fire in Northern California has charred about 10 square miles of Napa County, with just 13% containment, but area wineries have reported no damage.
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More than 200 personnel are battling a wildfire fire burning in the hills east of Calistoga that has swelled to 1,200 acres and has prompted e…
San Bruno Fire Chief Ari Delay will retire this October after leading the city’s department over the last five years.
Wildfires are raging across southern Europe, killing at least three people in Spain, Turkey and Albania. Thinly-stretched crews are fighting to contain the blazes after weeks of searing heat. A battle to protect the perimeter of Greece's third-largest city, Patras, has so far failed and only partially contained the gale-fueled blaze. In southern Albania, a wildfire caused explosions after detonating buried World War II-era artillery shells. Officials said on Wednesday that an 80-year-old man died in one blaze south of the capital, Tirana. A firefighting volunteer died in Spain, while a forestry worker was killed in southern Turkey.
Firefighters in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles are making good progress in their battle against a brush fire that forced thousands of people to evacuate. The Ventura County Fire Department says the Canyon Fire ignited Thursday afternoon and spread rapidly in dry, steep terrain in Ventura and Los Angeles counties to more than 7.6 square miles with no containment by 11 p.m. A county spokesperson says no further growth was reported Friday morning, though the fire remained uncontained. The fire is burning just south of Lake Piru, a reservoir located in the Los Padres National Forest. It's close by Lake Castaic, a popular recreation area burned by the Hughes Fire in January.
Rising temperatures pose new challenges for firefighters who have made incremental progress against a massive wildfire in central California that has injured four people as it has become the biggest blaze in the state so far this year. More than 870 remote homes and other structures at the northern edge of Los Padres National Forest are threatened by the Gifford Fire, which grew only slightly overnight after burning out of control for days. The fire has scorched at least 131 square miles of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, with just 9% containment on Wednesday.