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Burn it first. That deprives wildfires of the fuel they need to grow big and dangerous Julie Johnson FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Good Fire Alliance volunteers Joe Plaugher (left) and Devyn Friedfel start a prescribed burn in dry brush in Healdsburg.Alvin A.H. Jornada / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Barb Stuckey watches from her deck as crews strategically set fire to thick vegetation on her 10-acre property along Chemise Road in Healdsburg.Photos by Alvin A.H. Jornada / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Healdsburg firefighter Hector Madrigal keeps flames at bay a...

California braces for extreme 2021 wildfire season - it's very dry out there FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 Remnants of the CZU fire borders untouched land near Pine Flat Road and Bonny Doon Road in Santa Cruz.LiPo Ching / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of7 Cal Fire Santa Cruz and San Mateo Unit firefighters Donny Rippberger (left) and Ludovic Deshayes practice at the Cal Fire Ben Lomand Training Center in Santa Cruz.LiPo Ching / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of7 A home along Highway 236 near Boulder Creek smolders after being destroyed in the CZU Lightning Complex Fire ...

April 5, 2021 Chair of the Board of Supervisors Lynda Hopkins is accusing Sheriff Mark Essick of harassment and bullying. Supervisor Hopkins alleged the incident occurred last August during a phone call in the midst of the Walbridge Fire. She tells the Press Democrat she asked the Sheriff questions regarding her constituents accessing their animals in the evacuation zones when she was met with hostility and what she felt was a threat. An investigation has been conducted by County counsel but Sheriff Essick has sued to keep its results private claiming he’s protected by the same laws giv...

  National Weather Service Meteorologist Brooke Bingaman says that a flash flood warning was issued for the Walbridge Fire burn scar. Potential damage there has yet to be surveyed as rain totals ranged between 1-3 inches of rain throughout the county–there were even reports of snow in the higher elevations above 4,000 feet. Wednesday’s forecast calls for scattered showers today and tomorrow with the heaviest rains behind us. Quick Links

California Firefighter, Jacob Mual A chef for 22 years, Jacob Mual started volunteering with the local fire department in Sonoma County, California, in 2015. He now works full-time as an EMT with a local ambulance service, but he still volunteers with the local fire department and was on the ground at the Walbridge Fire that devastated the state last summer. He is writing a cookbook, ‘Functional Food for First Responders’, to which Lidia has contributed her recipe for Chicken Alla Pitocca, a hearty one-pot dish for the firefighters. Watch, as Lidia oversees Jacob preparing the Chicken ...