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Renée C. Byer/Sacramento Bee file. Five years ago today the Camp Fire ignited. It raged for more than two weeks, devastating the towns of Paradise, Concow and Magalia, killing 86 people and ...
A 100-year-old family camp was saved from the 299-square-mile Caldor Fire, the City of Sacramento said on August 30, as the wildfire continued to spread through California’s El Dorado and Amador ...
Sacramento Fire Marshal Jason Lee tells Sharon Jones, co-founder of Camp Resolution, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, that he is happy with the progress they have made since the inspection two weeks ago.
During late July, the total area burned during the 2024 wildfire season saw significant growth due in part to long periods of hot, dry weather. These conditions allowed several fires to grow rapidly in size, such as the Park Fire, in Butte and Tehama counties, and the Borel Fire, in Sequoia National Forest. By July 29, more than 726,000 acres ...
The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California's Butte County was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The fire began on the morning of Thursday, November 8, 2018, when part of a poorly maintained Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong katabatic winds.
The Caldor Fire was a large wildfire that burned 221,835 acres (89,773 hectares) in the Eldorado National Forest and other areas of the Sierra Nevada in El Dorado, ...
The Sacramento Regional Fire and EMS Communications Center, which dispatches crews from 10 fire departments across Sacramento County, received 1,465 emergency calls Thursday, a 45% increase from ...
The Camp Fire burned for weeks in November 2018, killing 85 people and destroying more than 13,500 homes. Rick Pero narrowly survived with his wife, Lisa Stone.