Czu Complex Fire News Today

Following the CZU Lighting Complex Fire that destroyed much of the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2020, the Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research Program is conducting a study about the biodiversity of the forest post-fire starting in 2021. 

A Boulder Creek family is dealing with a second major blow from Mother Nature.

Dan and Rochelle Kelly thought they would only be gone from their Boulder Creek, California, home for a day when they received the reverse 911 call on Aug. 18 advising them to evacuate because of an approaching wildfire.

Evacuation warnings have been issued for areas of San Mateo County after the National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch and wind advisory Saturday...

"There were a lot of people who didnt have water for a long time," Mahood said. In fact, much of the drinking water system operated by the San Lorenzo Valley Water District that serves Mahoods neighborhood, along with some 7,100 other households, was damaged or destroyed. Over the past five years or so, hundreds of California drinking water systems have suffered similar fates while struggling with the impacts of the states increasingly intense climate-driven wildfires. In 2020 alone, 250 water ...