But in 2021, the state Legislature ordered Cal Fire to expand the mapping to include “high” hazard zones so the Legislature could apply fire-safety building regulations to the new “high ...

A newly proposed state bill with bipartisan support would keep CAL FIRE firefighters employed year-round — and help with staffing issues, its supporters said. The Fight for Firefighters Act ...

The January Southern California firestorm highlighted a chilling truth, and the dates of other CAL FIRE wildfire declarations hammer it home. There is truly no longer a wildfire season here in ...

5, 2022. A Cal Fire report released in November 2023 said sparks from the contact between a sagging Southern California Edison line and another line caused the fire. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope ...

It wasn’t immediately clear where those dollars would come from. Cal Fire currently lays off some of its lowest ranking firefighters — yet the largest proportion of its workforce — during ...

It burned over 14,000 acres, according to Cal Fire. CNN’s Andy Rose contributed to this reporting. Correction: A previous AP story misreported the utility company’s statement about its ...

Mason Akers is working his first season with Cal Fire Tuolumne-Calavaras Unit. Although the two of them were working opposite shifts, they crossed paths while working with their crews.

CAL FIRE's maps only showed a ring of “very high” red hazard in the wildlands next to Altadena, with the vast majority of the city unmarked. Entire blocks of homes in Altadena were destroyed ...

The order also directs CalFire to add 1.4 million acres (nearly 2,200 square miles) to the state's fire-prone map, bringing more homeowners under these fire mitigation rules. Notably, most ...

“This escalating crisis has stretched firefighters dangerously thin,” McGuire said at a press conference in Sacramento, flanked by 21 other state senators and representatives from the union ...