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california history. >> ahh! lucky for us, the fires hadn't made it to where my family lives in oakland, but the air had gotten so bad that it wasn't safe to breathe. so my wife and i took me, the asthmatic, our elderly parents and kids straight to vegas. not because we wanted to gamble, but because it was close and there were cheap flights. back then, it seemed like a once in a lifetime thing, but every year since, the fires in california have gotten worse. >> the dixie fire. >> the hill fire. >> there are more towns being burned to the ground, more people whose lives are devastated,...

A workshop on “cultural burning” at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve focused as much on First Nation attitudes toward the land as much as it did on setting small fires to prevent bigger ones.

The cultural sensitivity and awareness workshop, which includes a demonstration of a cultural burn, starts at 8 a.m. Friday, Nov. 10, at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve, 34199 County Road 20, Woodland.

Aka, good fire. but you've got to know what you're doing to get the permit >> so we're going to take out this top little corner, but we're going to take our time. >> today i'm going to hang out with some people who definitely know what they're doing at a prescribed burn on private property. >> always try to be downhill of the pyre. >> leading the way are zeke lunder and hank, a professor of pyro geography at pico state university. >> they've been living with this extreme fear of fire. so we got this effort started locally to make it easier for land owners to burn their own land. the objective ...

Three thousand more acres of the Gila National Forest are burning as part of the Johnson Fire since Tuesday, totaling nearly 47,000 acres of land.