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The Tamarack Fire was a wildfire that burned 68,637 acres (27,776 ha), primarily in the Mokelumne Wilderness in Alpine County, California, Douglas County, Nevada and Lyon County, Nevada, as part of the 2021 California wildfire season. The fire was first reported burning on a rocky ridgetop on July 4, 2021, a result of a lightning strike. The ...
The Hughes Fire was a wildfire that burned in Los Angeles County in Southern California. The fire burned over 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares). [3] The fire began near Lake Hughes Road near Castaic Lake and its cause is under investigation. [1] [4] It prompted evacuation orders in the region around Castaic Lake. [5]
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) [3] [4] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California.It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests.
The scourge of wildfires in Los Angeles and the surrounding area are the most destructive in the city’s history, and the city’s fire chief said the region was still in the midst of an ...
Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and ...
The Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire are now among the top 5 most destructive wildfires ever recorded in California. At least 11 people are dead and more than 10,000 homes and other structures ...
When is a fire contained? A Chase bank on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles County's Pacific Palisades neighborhood burns on Jan. 8, 2025, after a wildfire broke out in on Jan. 7.
The port of San Francisco boomed and expanded very rapidly to a California state census population of about 32,000 in 1852 (San Francisco—the largest city in the state—U.S. California Census of 1850 was burned in one of the frequent fires in San Francisco [60]).