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Print Bill Clayton, a wildland firefighting expert who saved countless lives and entire towns during a career that spanned 50 years, died Sunday at the age of 77 of natural causes at his home in Carlsbad. “He was a legend in the fire service,” said lifelong friend and recently retired Cal Fire Battalion Chief Ray Chaney. “You’d be driving up to this giant atomic bomb-looking column of smoke, be a little nervous or have that sense of apprehension, and then you’d hear Bill’s voice on the radio: ‘Monte Vista division thirty-three zero seven responding’ in his gruff, low-tone voic...

Study Highlights the Role of Forest Fuels Amid a Warming Climate by Kat Kerlin January 13, 2021 California’s drought of 2012-2016 killed millions of trees in the Sierra Nevada — mostly by way of a bark beetle epidemic — leaving a forest canopy full of dry needles. A study published from the University of California, Davis, and the U.S. Forest Service helps answer concerns about what effect dense, dead foliage could have on subsequent wildfires and their burn severity.  In the study, published in the journal Ecological Applications, scientists found that the presence of recently dead ...

There's a fire in pomerado road, sycamore canyon area. and of course we have the big fire in ramona, lakeside. >> oh my god, there's three? >> there wasn't just one wildfire leaping from the forest. there were several. others had burst to life in the same area at the same time. there would be 14 fires in all that day, a perfect firestorm. and the roach family was right in its path. >> the fire is making significant increase and spreading now. we're probably less than an hour before we're going to start seeing some heat over here. >> we were aware that the cedar fire had erupted probably 25, 30...

There were several. others had burst to life in the same area at the same time. there would be 14 fires in all that day, a perfect firestorm. and the roach family was right in its path. >> the fire is making significant increase and spreading now. we're probably less than an hour before we're going to start seeing some heat over here. >> we were aware that the cedar fire had erupted probably 25, 30 miles away from our house, so we weren't very concerned about it. >> when we really started getting concerned is when allyson called us. she was taking a friend home and said that the reservation wa...

There's a fire in pomerado road, sycamore canyon area. and of course we have the big fire in ramona, lakeside. >> oh my god, there's three? >> there wasn't just one wildfire leaping from the forest. there were several. others had burst to life in the same area at the same time. there would be 14 fires in all that day, a perfect firestorm. and the roach family was right in its path. >> the fire is making significant increase and spreading now. we're probably less than an hour before we're going to start seeing some heat over here. >> we were aware that the cedar fire had erupted probably 25, 30...