by admin | Aug 7, 2018 | Fire news
Firefighters battle the Ranch Fire near Clearlake Oaks, California, on Aug. 5. Photographer: Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Lakeport, (AP) — Wildfires tearing through trees and brush, rampaging up hillsides and incinerating neighborhoods: The...
by admin | Aug 6, 2018 | Fire news
AN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration declared a “major disaster” in California as the state fights devastating wildfires that have now claimed at least nine lives. The declaration makes federal funds available to residents of Shasta County, where the...
by admin | Aug 2, 2018 | Fire news
More than 100 Spanish firefighters, similar to this one pictured in October 2017, are tackling a wildfire that threatens one of Spains’ famous Estrecho national parks (AFP Photo/MIGUEL RIOPA) More Madrid (AFP) – Firefighters were battling Wednesday to put...
by admin | Aug 1, 2018 | Fire news
UPPER LAKE, Calif. (AP) – Firefighters struggling to contain destructive Northern California wildfires found themselves facing a new blaze that erupted Tuesday and drove through a rural area near a national forest. About 60 homes in an old ranching and farming...
by admin | Aug 1, 2018 | Fire news
CREDIT: ASSOCIATED PRESS Above: A plane battling the Ferguson Fire passes the setting sun in unincorporated Mariposa County Calif., near Yosemite National Park on Sunday, July 15, 2018. Jessyca Lytle fled a fast-moving Northern California wildfire in 2015 that spared...
by admin | Jul 31, 2018 | Fire news
It only took a little over 15 minutes for Ed Bledsoe to lose three lives that meant the world to him — his wife and their two great-grandchildren. He had left his home in Shasta County, California, on Thursday to go to the doctor, he told CNN on Sunday. The Carr Fire...