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California Monument Fire Sunday, August 29, 2021 Updates

In southern oregon, the bootleg fire has doubled in size every day for the last three days. tonight, its threatening to take out a major power grid that connects oregon and california. at the cedar fire in arizona, retired 40-year-old veteran firefighter jeff piechura and 48-year-old pilot matthew miller were killed when the plane they were flying to scout the fire crashed. piechura leaves behind a wife and five kids. the ntsb is investigating. david, as were seeing the extent of this damage, th...

The 'San Diego Mammal Atlas,' a new publication from the San Diego Natural History Museum, offers views of the county’s warm-blooded inhabitants ranging from bats to bighorn sheep.

features Cal Fire’s New Hawk Cal Fire has begun a long-awaited replacement of its venerable UH-1 Huey aerial firefighting fleet with the new Sikorsky S-70i. By Dan Megna | March 10, 2021 Estimated reading time 15 minutes, 34 seconds. After four decades operating Bell UH-1F Hueys up to 1990, and UH-1H Super Hueys from then to the present day, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has begun a long-anticipated upgrade to its aviation program. After four deca...

Print Bill Clayton, a wildland firefighting expert who saved countless lives and entire towns during a career that spanned 50 years, died Sunday at the age of 77 of natural causes at his home in Carlsbad. “He was a legend in the fire service,” said lifelong friend and recently retired Cal Fire Battalion Chief Ray Chaney. “You’d be driving up to this giant atomic bomb-looking column of smoke, be a little nervous or have that sense of apprehension, and then you’d hear Bill’s voice on ...

Study Highlights the Role of Forest Fuels Amid a Warming Climate by Kat Kerlin January 13, 2021 California’s drought of 2012-2016 killed millions of trees in the Sierra Nevada — mostly by way of a bark beetle epidemic — leaving a forest canopy full of dry needles. A study published from the University of California, Davis, and the U.S. Forest Service helps answer concerns about what effect dense, dead foliage could have on subsequent wildfires and their burn severity.  In the study, pu...

Theres a fire in pomerado road, sycamore canyon area. and of course we have the big fire in ramona, lakeside. >> oh my god, theres three? >> there wasnt just one wildfire leaping from the forest. there were several. others had burst to life in the same area at the same time. there would be 14 fires in all that day, a perfect firestorm. and the roach family was right in its path. >> the fire is making significant increase and spreading now. were probably less than an hour before were going to sta...

There were several. others had burst to life in the same area at the same time. there would be 14 fires in all that day, a perfect firestorm. and the roach family was right in its path. >> the fire is making significant increase and spreading now. were probably less than an hour before were going to start seeing some heat over here. >> we were aware that the cedar fire had erupted probably 25, 30 miles away from our house, so we werent very concerned about it. >> when we really started getting c...

Theres a fire in pomerado road, sycamore canyon area. and of course we have the big fire in ramona, lakeside. >> oh my god, theres three? >> there wasnt just one wildfire leaping from the forest. there were several. others had burst to life in the same area at the same time. there would be 14 fires in all that day, a perfect firestorm. and the roach family was right in its path. >> the fire is making significant increase and spreading now. were probably less than an hour before were going to sta...