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Tubbs Fire - 5,636 structures burned in Napa and Sonoma Counties, 2017 Tunnel Fire - 2,900 structures burned in Alameda County, 1991 Cedar Fire - 2,820 structures burned in San Diego County, 2003
Firefighters with the Sonoma County Fire Department help Zena Bartholomew, 69, go through her belongings found inside a fireproof safe in the Alphabet Streets of the Pacific Palisades, CA, Jan. 9 ...
This handout image released by The European Space Agency (ESA) from Copernicus Sentinel-2 on Jan. 8, 2025, shows smoke rising north of the Santa Monica area on Jan. 7, 2025, as wildfires raged ...
On January 10, an evacuation warning was mistakenly issued for the entirety of Los Angeles County rather than an area specific to the Kenneth fire and was subsequently sent out to cellphones across the county as a wireless emergency alert message to nearly 10 million LA-area residents; [127] [128] County Supervisor Janice Hahn later confirmed ...
The Glass Fire was fully contained on October 20, 2020, after burning over 67,484 acres and destroying 1,555 structures, including 308 homes and 343 commercial buildings in Napa County, as well as 334 homes in Sonoma County. [10] [11] No injuries or deaths were reported as a result of the fire. [12]
Climate change in California has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century. [4] [5]Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California are growing more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by ...
An update from the LA County Sheriff's Department shortly before 8:30 p.m. local time said the most intense fire activity was occurring on the southwestern side of the fire.
In late October, the Kincade Fire became the largest fire of the year, burning 77,758 acres (31,468 ha) in Sonoma County by November 6. Massive preemptive public safety power shutoff events in 2019 were controversial.