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A 2-alarm fire burned near Sutter's Landing Regional Park, according to the Sacramento Fire Department. The fire department says the fire sparked just after 8:45 p.m. near 20 28th Street, between Sutter's Landing Regional Park and the American River. The fire burned approximately four acres before it was contained and extinguished. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Incident info: 2-alarm grass fire at 8:48pm near 20 28th Street,...

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5:35 p.m. update: Sacramento Fire Department has mostly extguinished a warhourse fire in the Arden area. Fire officials said the building was an autoparts warehouse. They did not say what started the fire. There are also no injuries reported as of publication. Original story: Sacramento Fire Department is battling a three-alarm fire after a commercial building fire in the Arden area. Fire department officials said the fire is in the 900 block of...

Credit: Getty Images DAVE WINNACKER stood on a hill in Northern California as flames devoured the houses below him. The Ala­meda County Fire Department division chief had fought wildfires before, but the 2017 North Bay Fires felt different. A sense of helplessness overcame him as he watched them burn. "I had engines assigned to them," he says. "But you couldn't stop it." A former Marine (and now a fire chief in the Bay Area's Moraga-Orinda Fire District), Winnacker was one of more than 10,000 firefighters who battled the infernos, which raged for three weeks. The blaze tore through a quarter...

3 p.m. update: Evacuation warnings and advisories have been lifted as the Quail Fire has been contained, according to the Yuba County Sheriff's Office. According to Cal Fire, the Quail Fire is 100% contained. 2:30 p.m. update: Cal Fire Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit gave an update on the Quail Fire, saying it's doubled in size to 50 acres and is now 20% contained. They said in a tweet that no structures are threatened and there haven't been any...