As fire season grows, California senators push for more year-round firefighters
After LA fires, Senate President Mike McGuire proposes full-time firefighters to replace the current seasonal workforce ...
Cal Fire’s predictions didn’t foresee the Altadena inferno. Now it’s changing its fire-hazard maps
The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire's "very high" fire hazard severity zones, yet ...
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Los Angeles fires continue to burn: Where are the wildfires and how to help from Tennessee
As of Thursday, at least five fires were active in Los Angeles County, scorching more than 40 square miles across the region, according to Cal Fire. The largest blazes? The fire blazing in the ...
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Photos: Drone images display stunning devastation from Palisades fire
The photos, by SCNG staff photographer Jeff Gritchen, were shot with Federal Aviation Administration authorization and the cooperation of CalFire. Drones were allowed into the area, but only with ...
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Crashes and Disasters
Republican states. Experts explain that and more about FEMA Cal Fire had more than 60 aircraft within its firefighting fleet in the effort to combat fires throughout Los Angeles. Cal Fire’s ...
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Here’s what it’s like to manage Cal Fire’s aircraft during a massive wildfire
Cal Fire had more than 60 aircraft within its firefighting fleet in the effort to combat fires throughout Los Angeles. Cal Fire’s fleet of fixed and rotary-wing aircraft make it the largest ...
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Cal Fire Chief: 'Weeks' Needed to Extinguish LA Wildfires Fully
As Los Angeles County continues to endure one of the most destructive wildfire seasons in California's history, Cal Fire Battalion Chief David Acuña warned that it could take weeks to fully ...
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Controlled burn, containment, evacuation warning: The meanings behind different fire terminologies
Fire Captain Eric Carreiro from CAL FIRE spoke with KSBY News Wednesday afternoon to help clarify the different fire terms being used by fire officials. “A controlled burn would be where we have ...
Los Angeles Times23d
Rural areas got millions in state fire prevention funds over parts of L.A. that burned
Cal Fire elected not to fund millions of dollars in Wildfire Prevention Grants over the last four years for areas that were destroyed by the Palisades fire, state records show. During the same ...