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Sacramento— The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s (Cal Fire) Urban and Community Forestry Program announced today $117 million will be available for Green Schoolyard grants in 2023. The Green Schoolyard grant guidelines are now…

High winds, down trees, and pouring rain. The storm hit the Peninsula, Saturday.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch in Monterey County for the Colorado, Dolan and River Fire burn scars Saturday.

The National Weather Service, USGS, California State Geological Survey and U.S. Forest Service work together each year to determine the risk for flooding and debris flows for fires that have occurred in the last several years.

California Reeling: When Mudslides Follow Wildfires. It’s been nearly five years since a torrent of mud, boulders and debris slammed into Montecito, California, a Santa Barbara County town of 8,600 nestled between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the...

Scientists are finding that Western wildfires can have far-reaching impacts. If theyre burning while Central U.S. thunderstorms are forming, the rain and hail can be dramatically more destructive.

 

An explosion and fire last week at the Columbia Hills Retirement Center in St. Helens, Oregon, that killed one person was a human-caused accident.

ST. HELENS, Ore. (AP) — An explosion and fire last week at the Columbia Hills Retirement Center in St. Helens, Oregon, that killed one person was a human-caused accident. Columbia River Fire & Rescue officials said the explosion was caused by oxygen tanks stored in the apartment where the fire started at about 12:30 a.m.

Newly released bodycam video shows the moments when St. Helens Police officers rescued several residents from a burning retirement home.