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Despite wildfires, the pandemic and other challenges, experts praise this vintage of Sonoma Pinot Noir. Learn more here.

In August, 2020, a flurry of dry lightning strikes sparked over 900 fires across California. “You could smell the smoke and everything,” says Benjamín…

Armstrong Woods has reopened for the first time since the Walbridge Fire in August of last year. Visitors were able to enter Armstrong Redwoods State Natural

An Aerial Tour of Sonoma County's Burn Scars (PHOTOS)

One Wildfire In 2020s LNU Complex Believed to Have Been Arson to Cover Up Murder One of last Augusts wildfires that merged with others to become the LNU Lightning Complex fires is now believed to have been the result of arson — and the culprit, according to the Solano County Sheriffs Office, is a 29-year-old man who likely set the blaze to cover up an earlier murder. The Markley Fire, which broke out on August 17 near Monticello Dam, had an origin point very close to where authorities later d...

Burn it first. That deprives wildfires of the fuel they need to grow big and dangerous Julie Johnson FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Good Fire Alliance volunteers Joe Plaugher (left) and Devyn Friedfel start a prescribed burn in dry brush in Healdsburg.Alvin A.H. Jornada / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Barb Stuckey watches from her deck as crews strategically set fire to thick vegetation on her 10-acre property along Chemise Road in Healdsburg.Photos by Alvin A.H. Jornada / Special ...

California braces for extreme 2021 wildfire season - its very dry out there FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 Remnants of the CZU fire borders untouched land near Pine Flat Road and Bonny Doon Road in Santa Cruz.LiPo Ching / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of7 Cal Fire Santa Cruz and San Mateo Unit firefighters Donny Rippberger (left) and Ludovic Deshayes practice at the Cal Fire Ben Lomand Training Center in Santa Cruz.LiPo Ching / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of7 A home alo...

April 5, 2021 Chair of the Board of Supervisors Lynda Hopkins is accusing Sheriff Mark Essick of harassment and bullying. Supervisor Hopkins alleged the incident occurred last August during a phone call in the midst of the Walbridge Fire. She tells the Press Democrat she asked the Sheriff questions regarding her constituents accessing their animals in the evacuation zones when she was met with hostility and what she felt was a threat. An investigation has been conducted by County counsel bu...

  National Weather Service Meteorologist Brooke Bingaman says that a flash flood warning was issued for the Walbridge Fire burn scar. Potential damage there has yet to be surveyed as rain totals ranged between 1-3 inches of rain throughout the county–there were even reports of snow in the higher elevations above 4,000 feet. Wednesday’s forecast calls for scattered showers today and tomorrow with the heaviest rains behind us. Quick Links

California Firefighter, Jacob Mual A chef for 22 years, Jacob Mual started volunteering with the local fire department in Sonoma County, California, in 2015. He now works full-time as an EMT with a local ambulance service, but he still volunteers with the local fire department and was on the ground at the Walbridge Fire that devastated the state last summer. He is writing a cookbook, ‘Functional Food for First Responders’, to which Lidia has contributed her recipe for Chicken Alla Pitocca...