The Latest News and information about California Fires

An "aggressive" response by dozens of firefighters is being credited with saving a La Quinta home Monday. Cheri Patterson with the Riverside County Fire Department says the fire broke out at around 2 a.m., in the 57000 block of Via Vista for unknown causes. Shortly after, 39 firefighters were sent to the scene and helped [...]

  Columbia, CA– A family in Columbia were able to survive a house fire Monday night thanks to a brave high school senior. According to Cal Fire, the fire broke out at a residence on the 23000 block of Gold Springs Drive.  Five people including two children were reportedly asleep when the fire started. 18-year-old high school [...]

In between a lesson in arithmetic and a spelling test, Cottonwood Creek first-graders in Visalia got a look at the risks of playing with matches and the dangers of fire. As the first part of a four-part lesson, dozens of first-graders met with CAL FIRE firefighters Monday morning. As soon as the 6- and 7-year-olds [...]

Firefighters stationed in Tulare County recently re-landscaped their fire station, and used the process as a lesson in fire safety. The Three Rivers Redbud Garden Club took care of the planting, choosing native plants that are an optimum model of defensible space. The plants, shrubs, mulch and rocks that were placed around the station are [...]

         JULIAN – Two people were seriously injured when a explosion destroyed their home in Julian Tuesday night.

 The explosion — apparently linked to a gas leak behind a clothes dryer – – caused major damage to the home on Salton Vista Drive, near Dolores Drive, around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, said Cal Fire [...]

OROVILLE — A fire deemed suspicious by fire personnel broke out in a church Sunday morning, charring the books and the library and blackening much of the inside of the building with smoke damage. The fire was reported to the Oroville Fire Department at about 6:17 a.m. Sunday, said Battalion Chief Dean Hill. When the [...]

Todd Road west of Stony Point Road outside Santa Rosa was added Wednesday morning to the list of roadways affected by an overnight storm that flooded several west county roads and caused the pre-dawn closure of Porter Creek Road. The CHP said there was surface flooding on Todd Road between Phillips and Walker avenues. Flooding [...]

CalFire San Bernardino County is confirming they are on scene with a number units at the site of a transformer explosion in Yucca Valley.   The blast occured near the intersection of Barberry Ave. and Onaga Trail.   A Fire Department Supervisor says downed power lines have started a number of spot fires in residents backyards.   Unconfirmed reports say [...]

With memories of the 2008 Sesnon fire still fresh, residents of the San Fernando Valley are voicing concerns about Southern California Gas Co.'s plans to overhaul a natural gas storage facility.   Wes Rogers used a garden hose to fight flames from the 2008 Sesnon fire that had reached the fence of his home in [...]

SAN BRUNO — Due to the unusually warm weather, several small brush fires  have spread along Interstate Highway 280 in San Bruno causing the closure of two southbound lanes, a California Highway Patrol officer said.   The fires were reported at about 10:45 a.m. near the Crystal Springs Road off-ramp from southbound Highway 280, CHP [...]