Vegetation Fires News Today

One person is in custody in Douglas County for allegedly starting two small fires on Thursday morning.

Fire management staff at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are preparing to burn piles of vegetation in multiple locations throughout the parks.

The fires were quickly contained Monday afternoon.

As the first Santa Ana wind event of the season has descended upon Southern California, bringing with it incredibly high wind gusts of 60 miles per hour, with isolated gusts as high as 70 miles per hour, firefighters are battling several vegetation fires, two in the San Fernando Valley and another in L.A.’s Harbor region. In […]

He is suspected of starting a fire the afternoon he was arrested, authorities said.

More than 30 small fires were reported in four clusters within 15 miles from late Friday through Sunday, officials said.

So interstate 80 in both directions remains closed for the time being. as soon as were aware of when we can get that open, well share that as well. we have some good news. the vegetation fires are all contained and all but out. were mopping those up. we had about 15 acres of grass burn around the facility. thanks to good fire breaks and natural and manmade, we were able to contain those to the immediate vicinity of the incident itself. 15 acres all told for the vegetation fires, which are now ou...

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