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Over the last year and a half, almost four dozen Cal Fire firefighters have suffered from heat illness during training, and since 2003, five have died.
Even as he lay dying on the side of a Southern California mountain – his lips blue, the color gone from his face – wildland firefighter Yaroslav Katkov
Wildfire outlook continues to worsen for Western US Wildfire outlook continues to worsen for Western US Though we may need help later, the Governor's Office of Emergency services just announced it's sending additional California mutual aid crews to Oregon to help battle the relentless and every growing Bootleg Fire. KTVU's Tom Vacar reports. OAKLAND, Calif - The Federal agency that coordinates wildfire mutual aid among the states has now sent out a warning that resources are getting thinly stretched. It officially reset readiness to the highest level of preparedness. That means that we are br...
California’s fire season is off to a red-hot start. By the start of June, Cal Fire saw more than four times the acres burned than they saw, year-to-date, in 2020.
Justin Sullivan via Getty Images In 2020, California had over 9,900 wildfires, which burned a record 4.25 million acres and killed 33 people, according to the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire). It is time for California to rethink its approach to wildfires, stakeholders said. Both wildfires and utility-owned power lines run throughout California’s federally-, state- and privately-held forest lands. Regulated utilities have caused less than 10% of California's wildfires, according to the California Public Utiliti...