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New maps show that 68% more acres in Riverside and San Bernardino counties face a ‘very high’ risk of wildfire.

Oxnard's first Town Hall for collecting public input on the new Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps will take place Thursday, ...

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Strong winds on Monday drove an out-of-control wildfire through a remote area of eastern California, prompting evacuations for hundreds of homes.

The wildfire — which some agencies called the Laws Fire — was reported Sunday afternoon near the highway bridge over the ...

VIIRS/MODIS satellite hotspot data is updated daily in the morning with the red dots indicating which direction the fire is moving. The color of the dots shows how recent the data is (red is today, ...

The blaze, which is being called the Silver Fire, was reported at around 2:10 p.m. on Sunday near Highway 6 and Silver Canyon ...

Efforts to battle the 1,250-acre fire in eastern California were complicated by strong winds, which were expected to continue through Monday.

For weeks after the fire, he carried them out of habit. They jingled in his pocket, and sometimes he twirled them between his fingers. And then, sitting in his car one evening after making the ...