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Fire experts are predicting another hot, dry year in California, increasing the risk of wildfires a year after an especially bad season in 2020. The surge in fires has led some to consider the methods in which they are fought. At the San Mateo County Parks Commission’s April 1 meeting, commissioners discussed the use of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Conservation Camp Program, which employs inmates to help fight active fires and do mitigation work. The program is voluntary, and not all inmates are eligible. Those with a history of sexual offenses, arson or es...

Cal Fire will present a summary of the CZU Lightning Complex with a follow-up question and answer portion.

BOULDER CREEK, Calif. (KGO) -- A camp for people with disabilities in Boulder Creek is having to deal with another heartbreak just months after their beloved properties burned to the ground in the CZU August Lightning Complex Fires. Last week, they were burglarized and vandalized costing the owners time and money they don't have. "You know, the fire was a natural disaster. We couldn't blame anybody," Alex Krem, chairman at Camp Krem, said. "The robbery was very different. They just saw money in their pocket and a chance to kick us around. And that's hard to swallow." A generator worth more th...

County dries out, mops up after storm [Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif.] Jan. 29—APTOS — Even as sunshine peeked from behind the clouds Friday, communities across Santa Cruz County were left mopping up after the week’s high-intensity rainstorms had charged through the region. In the Aptos hills, a 41-year-old Pacific Gas & Electric Co. employee was recovering with minor injuries Friday morning after the vehicle he was riding in rolled down a Valencia School Road hillside, California Highway Patrol officer Sam Courtney said. The man, assessing storm damage to electric facilities, had been out...

Snow has closed the Grapevine area of the 5 Freeway in both directions Wednesday morning as a winter storm drenches the Central Coast and residents of fire-scarred areas brace for mudslides. It will continue snowing in the high-elevation pass into the afternoon, said Joe Sirard, a meteorologist for