SF News Wildfire Updates: Jerusalem Fire 90 Percent Contained; Rough Fire Grows To 21,000 Acres The national news has, per usual, been making it sound to most of the country like all of California is on fire, and between the 4,000 convicted felons now fighting the fires
SF News Wildfire Smoke Creates Hazy Day In The Bay Area @SFGate pic.twitter.com/aL8sDFURvs— Robert Padbury (@padbury) August 15, 2015 Smoke blowing in from wildfires burning up north have created the hazy conditions you're seeing throughout the Bay Area today. Don't worry,
SF News Jerusalem Fire Grows To 12,000 Acres A quick update on that second Lake County wildfire that broke out Sunday, the footprint of which is likely to overlap with the now almost fully contained Rocky Fire. The Jerusalem Fire, which
SF News Another Lake County Wildfire, The Jerusalem Fire, Breaks Out Right Next To The Rocky Fire To our north in Lake County, just to the south of the Rocky Fire which has ultimately burned 70,000 acres over 12 days and is now 85 percent contained there's now a
SF News There Are Now 21 Wildfires Burning In California; Rocky Fire Grows To 60,000 Acres What's turned out to be the most massive wildfire of the season so far, the Rocky Fire that began last Wednesday in Lake County has now spread across two other county lines, Colusa
SF News Fire Updates: Rocky Fire Grows To 8,000 Acres; Big Creek Fire Grows Near Yosemite A wildfire to our north in Lake County that broke out Wednesday afternoon quickly spread to burn 8,000 acres of trees and brush. It's called the Rocky Fire, and the Chron reports
SF News Day Around The Bay: Updates On Three Wildfires Still Raging The Wragg Fire near Lake Berryessa, which we talked about last week, remains at 6,591 acres as of early Monday and is 70 percent contained. Further north and east, the Lowell Fire
SF News [Update] Wind-Whipped Fire South Of Lake Berryessa Now 80% Contained #WraggFire pic.twitter.com/lsAnhWlSD7— Elizabeth Rogers (@Shescountry_86) July 23, 2015 A fire ignited yesterday and spread quickly in the area south of Lake Berryessa in Napa and Solano Counties, and it
SF News Charges Dropped Against Man Accused Of Starting The 2013 Rim Fire In Yosemite Remember the massive, devastating, utterly depressing Rim Fire of 2013, the third biggest wildfire in state history that burned 400 square miles of forest including parts of Yosemite National Park? Well the man
SF News Make No Mistake, California, This Fire Season Is Likely To Be Terrible Due to the drought, fire season is starting early in California, and Cal Fire is already warning of dry, fire friendly conditions that have prompted them to hire extra firefighters ahead of what's
SF News Cal Fire Airtanker Crashes While Fighting Wildfire In Yosemite The pilot of a Cal Fire airtanker was killed Tuesday when his plane crashed near Arch Rock while battling the fast-moving Dog Rock Fire, which broke out Tuesday afternoon near one of the
SF News King Fire Rages On In El Dorado County, Only 18 Percent Contained The largest California wildfire so far this season, the King Fire, is burning on a week after it began in El Dorado County, 60 miles east of Sacramento. The fire began on September
SF News Two New Wildfires Sparked Near Yosemite And Oregon Border Among the 12 major wildfires currently burning across the state, two fresh ones were sparked in the last two days: the Courtney Fire, burning not far from the recent Junction Fire near Oakhurst
SF News Another Yosemite Wildfire, The Junction Fire, Grows To 1,200 Acres This fire season is proving, predictably, to be a doozy. Yet another wildfire has grown out of control in Madera County near the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park and the town of
SF News Butts Canyon Fire Now 90 Percent Contained; Monticello Fire Breaks Out On Other Side of Lake Berryessa [Updated] Thankfully, that wildfire up in Napa County, dubbed the Butts Canyon Fire, is looking a lot more under control as we get into this holiday weekend. It remains a 4300-acre blaze, the same
SF News Butts Canyon Fire Update: Now At 4,300 Acres, Still 30 Percent Contained Between Tuesday and this morning, the wildfire in northern Napa County has grown from 3,200 to 4,300 acres, but firefighters have been able to maintain a 30-percent containment level over the
SF News Big Sur Wildfire Update: 20% Contained, Fire Moving Slowly The late season wildfire burning in the Los Padres National Forest in Big Sur is still moving slowly, and as of Tuesday night it had burned 769 acres and was 20 percent contained.
SF News Big Sur Wildfire Burns Over 500 Acres, Destroys 15 Homes Near National Forest The scene from Rancho Rico today, taken by Ariana Satayathum. #pfeifferfire pic.twitter.com/2GqhwlACFm— Virginia Hennessey (@virghennessey) December 16, 2013 A wildfire that started late Sunday night is currently burning through hundreds
SF News Inconsiderate Napa County Fire Blows Smoke In San Francisco's Face #BREAKING: #PutahFire north wind is bringing smoke in from fire burning near Lake Berryessa. You smelling it? pic.twitter.com/cheXdKQzRR— Sandhya Patel (@SandhyaABC7) October 4, 2013 Were you one of those people
SF News Another Fire Burned Up 68 Homes In Shasta This Week You knew it was going to be a bad fire season after that gloriously dry winter. And, it is. There was another wildfire this week up in Shasta County that is currently at
SF News Mount Diablo Fire Now 90 Percent Contained; Obviously Caused By A Human [Updated] The good news is that the Morgan Fire over on Mount Diablo is pretty well under control as of today, and firefighters are saying they should have it all snuffed out by the
SF News Wildfire Growing on Mount Diablo; Brush Fire Breaks Out In Sonoma Hot, windy conditions helped fuel two Bay Area fires on Sunday. A wildfire erupted Sunday afternoon on the eastern side of Mount Diablo, burning brush and other vegetation and potentially threatening about 100
SF News Hunter's Campfire Caused Rim Fire Well, it seems a lone man is responsible for the Rim Fire that has (so far) burned 370 square miles of Northern California forest, and it's all because of an illegal campfire. The
SF News Rim Fire Update: 300 Square Miles, 30% Contained Here's the requisite update on the blazing inferno that has engulfed half of Northern California's forests (not exactly) and continues to make headway into Yosemite National Park. Overnight, the growing legion of firefighters
SF News Rim Fire At 234 Square Miles And Counting; SF Power And Water Supplies Threatened The wildfire burning in the remote woods north of Yosemite National Park in California has grown rapidly since Friday to become one of the biggest fires in the state's history. Crispy dry conditions
