A new wildfire was reported today at 5:20 a.m. in El Dorado County, California. Happy Fire has been burning on federal land ...

Rangeland rancher John Austel was glad to have a wildfire grazing plan in place, but he didn’t want to have to put it to the test.

A new wildfire was reported today at 11:39 a.m. in Washoe County, California. S-6 Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management for three hours. At this time, the ...

Eight years after the 2017 Nuns-Tubbs wildfires, killing more than 20 people, Sonoma County Emergency Management Dep.

However, these three agencies are critical components of California's wildfire response capabilities, from forecasting and forest management to firefighting and disaster relief. Weakening them at ...

A review of the beneficiaries' grants and work showed how FireAid was an urgent lifeline in the worst of the disaster and ...

A NPS fire ranger monitors the Hughes fire on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Castaic, California. The fire started north of Castaic and has exploded to more than 5,000 acres in under two hours.

On March 22, 2019, Gov. Newsom declared a wildfire state of emergency for California and waived environmental regulations to speed up forest management projects aimed at reducing the fuel load for ...

Put another way: CalFire’s total funding for fire protection, resource management and fire prevention has grown from $800 million in 2005-06 to an estimated $3.7 billion in 2021-22.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has been steadily adding more personnel in recent years and now employs more than 12,500 people with a goal to increase staffing to 14,500 ...