Planned Burn News Today

The BC Wildfire Service said its members are planning to burn about 450 piles of wood debris north of Apex Mountain Resort.

Fontenelle Forest is planning a prescribed burn this week to help manage the habitat.

The head of the U.S. Forest Service has denounced the arrest by an Oregon sheriff of a Forest Service employee after a planned burn in a national forest spread onto private land.

A prescribed burn that aims to cut wildfire risk near Los Olivos is continuing as planned, fire officials said Wednesday.

The planned burn was scheduled by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department and UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration.

Five acres of land in Los Olivos were ignited Friday as part of live fire training, officials say.

Roughly 9,000 acres of grasslands and brush are set to be ignited in a planned burn and training at Camp Roberts Wednesday.

In the coming days, crews will be at work burning fuels and brush piles at Montaña de Oro and Hearst San Simeon State Parks, parks officials announced Monday.

Prescribed fires are becoming a more common way to control wildfires before they happen, especially in the Mountain West.

250 acres of vegetation are set to be ignited in planned burns CAL FIRE SLO is conducting near Creston.