Lake fire raises concern as wildfire season heats up
4 years, 4 months ago

Lake fire raises concern as wildfire season heats up

LA Times  

A pillar of smoke and ash rose into the sky over Lake Hughes like an erupting volcano. 2 / 24 LAKE HUGHES, CALIFORNIA AUGUST 15, 2020-Firefighters from the Santa Barbara County strike team tput out hot spots from the Lake Fire along Pine Canyon Road in Lake Hughes Saturday. 19 / 24 A home burns along Pine Canyon Road near Lake Hughes early Thursday after the Lake fire burned thousands of acres. 20 / 24 A helicopter makes a water drop along a ridge near Lake Hughes after the Lake fire burned thousands of acres. 21 / 24 A truck sits along Pine Canyon Road near Lake Hughes early Thursday after the Lake fire burned thousands of acres.

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Fire officials describe harrowing conditions as Southern California wildfire exploded
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Fire officials describe harrowing conditions as Southern California wildfire exploded

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Fire authorities on Sunday described battling fierce, howling winds and rescuing people in a fast-moving Southern California wildfire that forced thousands of people to flee and destroyed at least 168 structures and damaged 67. “I am grateful for the number of lives that were saved and the fact that we have zero reported fatalities,” said an emotional …

Felicia fire evacuation orders lifted near Lake Piru, but challenging weather looms
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Felicia fire evacuation orders lifted near Lake Piru, but challenging weather looms

LA Times  

A helicopter drops water on the advancing Felicia fire in Piru on Thursday. Evacuation orders for the Lake Piru Recreation Area were downgraded to warnings Friday as more than 500 firefighters worked to contain the Felicia fire, authorities said. The brush fire ignited near the southwestern bank of the lake around 1 p.m. Thursday, and fire crews were able to …

‘Moonscape’: Airport fire evacuees wait, and hope the blaze spares them
3 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Moonscape’: Airport fire evacuees wait, and hope the blaze spares them

LA Times  

The Airport fire, which sparked Monday in Orange County’s Trabuco Canyon, has gained ferocity. “I am crossing my fingers, we are OK for now,” said Pavelka as he watched smoke billow over the Santa Ana Mountains near the spot where he has lived for 20 years. California Photos: Fires ravaging California after heat wave After a heat wave struck Southern …

Despite cooler temperatures, thunderstorms increase fire risk to parts of Southern California
5 months, 1 week ago

Despite cooler temperatures, thunderstorms increase fire risk to parts of Southern California

LA Times  

After enduring a prolonged heat wave, Southern California can expect cooler temperatures and light showers along the coast Sunday with a chance for thunderstorms in mountain and desert areas, increasing the risk of more wildfires. That could worsen conditions for fire personnel working around the clock to extinguish the Lake fire in Santa Barbara County, California’s largest wildfire so far …

19,000-acre wildfire in Santa Barbara County prompts evacuations near vineyards, Neverland Ranch
5 months, 2 weeks ago

19,000-acre wildfire in Santa Barbara County prompts evacuations near vineyards, Neverland Ranch

LA Times  

Firefighting crews work to build a fire line as they continue to battle the Lake fire in Santa Barbara County on Sunday. A wildfire in the mountains above Santa Barbara County’s Santa Ynez Valley has exploded to nearly 19,000 acres, prompting evacuations near vineyards and Neverland Ranch. “It’s going to continue to grow.” Maps posted by the U.S. Forest Service …

Post fire becomes California’s largest wildfire of the year
6 months, 1 week ago

Post fire becomes California’s largest wildfire of the year

LA Times  

Crew members spray down hot spots along Orwin Road near Gorman while battling the Post fire in northern Los Angeles County. A major wildfire in northern Los Angeles County continued burning Monday evening southeast toward Pyramid Lake, scorching more than 15,000 acres to become the state’s largest blaze of the year. Since Saturday, more than 20 fires sparked across California, …

Los Angeles Wildfire spreads, 1,200 people evacuated
6 months, 1 week ago

Los Angeles Wildfire spreads, 1,200 people evacuated

Deccan Chronicle  

GORMAN, California: Authorities evacuated at least 1,200 people Saturday as a wildfire in Los Angeles County spread over thousands of acres near a major highway and threatened nearby structures, officials said. The blaze, named the Post Fire, burned more than 3,600 acres near the Interstate 5 freeway in Gorman, about 62 miles northwest of Los Angeles, according to the California …

Strong winds, steep terrain hamper crews battling Los Angeles area’s first major fire of the year
6 months, 1 week ago

Strong winds, steep terrain hamper crews battling Los Angeles area’s first major fire of the year

Associated Press  

GORMAN, Calif. — Strong winds pushed flames through dry brush in mountains along Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles on Sunday, and officials warned residents in the wildfire’s path to be prepared to leave if it explodes in size again. Los Angeles County’s first major wildfire of the year swiftly grew to nearly 23 square miles, one day after it …

California firefighters chase new fires ignited by lightning
3 years, 3 months ago

California firefighters chase new fires ignited by lightning

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Firefighters scrambled Friday to quash fires ignited by lightning as thunderstorms with mostly small but welcome amounts of rain rumbled across drought-stricken Northern California, where forests have been burning for weeks. Firefighters were diverted from the huge Caldor Fire south of Lake Tahoe to fight multiple overnight lightning fires throughout El Dorado County, according to the local …

Official: Wildfire near Lake Tahoe largely kept from towns
3 years, 3 months ago

Official: Wildfire near Lake Tahoe largely kept from towns

Associated Press  

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The huge wildfire near the Lake Tahoe resort region was about half contained Tuesday, with the head of California’s firefighting agency saying crews largely have been able to keep flames away from populated areas. “We’ve been able to herd these fires around and outside of the main community corridors,” California Department of Forestry and Fire …

High winds threaten to whip up flames approaching Lake Tahoe
3 years, 3 months ago

High winds threaten to whip up flames approaching Lake Tahoe

Associated Press  

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A day after an explosive wildfire emptied a resort city at the southern tip of Lake Tahoe, a huge firefighting force braced for strong winds Tuesday as some residents in neighboring Nevada were ordered to evacuate. The city of South Lake Tahoe, usually bustling with summer tourists, was eerily empty and the air thick and …

Caldor fire blows past 200,000 acres as it nears Nevada
3 years, 3 months ago

Caldor fire blows past 200,000 acres as it nears Nevada

LA Times  

The Caldor fire is reflected off Caples Lake near Kirkwood Mountain Resort on Wednesday. “All of our resource focus on this side is all broken up into structure protection, and trying to skirt that fire away from the valuables at risk and the communities down here.” Monday said crews were laying bulldozer lines on the east side of Pioneer Trail …

Residents scramble to evacuate as wildfire approaches Lake Tahoe
3 years, 3 months ago

Residents scramble to evacuate as wildfire approaches Lake Tahoe

Al Jazeera  

The resort area is in the path of California’s Caldor Fire, which is raging due to strong winds and dry conditions. A huge firefighting force gathered Tuesday to defend Lake Tahoe from a raging wildfire that forced the evacuation of California communities on the south end of the alpine resort and put others across the state line in Nevada on …

Photos: All-out fight to save Lake Tahoe from the Caldor fire
3 years, 3 months ago

Photos: All-out fight to save Lake Tahoe from the Caldor fire

LA Times  

President Biden declared an emergency in California that will allow federal assistance for the Caldor fire, which has burned hundreds of structures and continues moving toward Nevada. A firefighter clears brush as a tanker sprays fire retardant to help battle the Caldor fire along Highway 89 west of Lake Tahoe on Thursday. Cal Fire firefighter Travis Moore lights a backfire …

Thousands Are Racing To Flee A Lake Tahoe Resort City As A Huge Wildfire Spreads
3 years, 3 months ago

Thousands Are Racing To Flee A Lake Tahoe Resort City As A Huge Wildfire Spreads

NPR  

Thousands Are Racing To Flee A Lake Tahoe Resort City As A Huge Wildfire Spreads Enlarge this image toggle caption Noah Berger/AP Noah Berger/AP SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Thousands of people rushed to leave South Lake Tahoe as the entire resort city came under evacuation orders and wildfire raced toward Lake Tahoe, a large freshwater lake straddling California and …

Why the Lake Tahoe area is vulnerable to wildfire
3 years, 3 months ago

Why the Lake Tahoe area is vulnerable to wildfire

LA Times  

As the Caldor fire continues to spread, authorities are nervously eyeing the Lake Tahoe Basin as a potential area of devastation. The Washoe people are believed to have set some of these fires for land management purposes; others were sparked by lightning but weren’t put out right away, according to a U.S. Forest Service report on the area’s fire history. …

Minnesota wildfires disappoint travelers and outfitters
3 years, 4 months ago

Minnesota wildfires disappoint travelers and outfitters

Associated Press  

ELY, Minn. — Ely is typically teeming this time of year with visitors heading out on or returning from excursions into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. “Usually, this time of the morning, we’re bustling — getting people on the water, loading canoes, getting them out to their entry points,” Jason Zabokrtsky, owner of Ely Outfitting Company, told Minnesota Public …

Caldor fire approaches Lake Tahoe; residents brace for the worst
3 years, 4 months ago

Caldor fire approaches Lake Tahoe; residents brace for the worst

LA Times  

Smoke from the Caldor fire shrouds Fallen Leaf Lake near South Lake Tahoe on Tuesday. The destructive Caldor fire moved closer to Lake Tahoe on Wednesday, leaving residents of the famed vacation resort area bracing for the worst while dealing with intense smoke that already prompted some to leave. Officials at the Lake Valley Fire Protection District, headquartered in South …

California fires: Go behind the scenes of incredible photos captured by Times staffers
4 years, 2 months ago

California fires: Go behind the scenes of incredible photos captured by Times staffers

LA Times  

We absorb the images — the charred remains of a homeowner’s paradise, a sweeping natural vista left blackened by towers of flame — and they are startling in their reality. 24 / 42 A vehicle streaks by as Fresno County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeffery Shipman stands along California 168, with the Creek fire in the background on Sept. 6. 31 / …

Firefighters thought the California blaze was dying. Then it killed at least 12
4 years, 3 months ago

Firefighters thought the California blaze was dying. Then it killed at least 12

LA Times  

Propane gas burns at a home on Zink Road destroyed in the North Complex fire on Friday in Butte County, north of San Francisco. 24 / 42 A vehicle streaks by as Fresno County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeffery Shipman stands along California 168, with the Creek fire in the background on Sept. 6. 31 / 42 A firefighter conducts a back-burn …

Firefighters overtaken by flames in California mountains
4 years, 3 months ago

Firefighters overtaken by flames in California mountains

Associated Press  

SHAVER LAKE, Calif. — More than a dozen California firefighters trying to protect a fire station in rugged mountains were overrun by flames Tuesday, and several were hurt. Fourteen firefighters deployed emergency shelters as flames overtook them and destroyed the Nacimiento Station in the Los Padres National Forest on the state’s central coast, the U.S. Forest Service said. In Southern …

California wildfires: Helicopter crews have airlifted almost 400 people who were cut off by Creek Fire
4 years, 3 months ago

California wildfires: Helicopter crews have airlifted almost 400 people who were cut off by Creek Fire

CNN  

CNN — More than two dozen large wildfires raging across California after an extreme heat wave have created a “dire situation,” Thom Porter, chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said Tuesday. Noah Berger/AP An officer with Napa County Animal Control rescues a cat after the Glass Fire passed through Napa Valley, California, on September 28, 2020. …

California wildfires force evacuation of entire town in central California
4 years, 3 months ago

California wildfires force evacuation of entire town in central California

CNN  

CNN — Authorities issued evacuation orders Monday for the entire town of Auberry, a mountain community of 2,500 in central California, as the Creek Fire continued to burn out of control. Noah Berger/AP An officer with Napa County Animal Control rescues a cat after the Glass Fire passed through Napa Valley, California, on September 28, 2020. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty …

California Wildfire Traps Campers In National Forest
4 years, 3 months ago

California Wildfire Traps Campers In National Forest

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING SHAVER LAKE, Calif. — Three fast-spreading California wildfires sent people fleeing Saturday, with one trapping campers at a reservoir in the Sierra National Forest, as a brutal heat wave pushed temperatures into triple digits in many parts of state. The wildfire burning near Shaver Lake exploded to 56 square miles, jumped a river and compromised the only …

Why California’s 2020 lightning fires got so big so fast
4 years, 3 months ago

Why California’s 2020 lightning fires got so big so fast

LA Times  

When state fire authorities announced recently that the CZU Lightning Complex fire had quadrupled in size in just one day, an audible gasp rose from the audience. “There’s a direct relationship between heat and fire, and increasing heat is inevitable for at least a few decades,” said Michael Gerrard, director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. “If …

Wildfires rage across Northern California threatening thousands of homes
4 years, 4 months ago

Wildfires rage across Northern California threatening thousands of homes

India Today  

Wildfires raged through Northern California on Thursday, threatening thousands of homes and blackening the skies near San Francisco as crews struggled to surround them despite steep terrain and blistering heat. A critically dry air mass is moving over the area bringing strong winds," a Cal Fire statement said Wednesday night. In eastern San Francisco Bay, a cluster of 20 separate …

Massive wildfire spawns fire tornadoes in Northern California
4 years, 4 months ago

Massive wildfire spawns fire tornadoes in Northern California

LA Times  

A funnel appears in a thick plume of smoke from the Loyalton Fire in Lassen County, Calif., on Saturday. 2 / 24 LAKE HUGHES, CALIFORNIA AUGUST 15, 2020-Firefighters from the Santa Barbara County strike team tput out hot spots from the Lake Fire along Pine Canyon Road in Lake Hughes Saturday. 19 / 24 A home burns along Pine Canyon …

Lake and Ranch 2 fires burn thousands of acres as region is gripped in epic heat wave
4 years, 4 months ago

Lake and Ranch 2 fires burn thousands of acres as region is gripped in epic heat wave

LA Times  

A truck sits along Pine Canyon Road near Lake Hughes early Thursday after the Lake fire burned thousands of acres. A home burns along Pine Canyon Road near Lake Hughes early Thursday after the Lake fire burned thousands of acres. The Ranch fire burns in the hills above a cluster of homes along the San Gabriel River near Azusa on …

Some evacuation orders lifted as firefighters continue battle on Lake fire
4 years, 4 months ago

Some evacuation orders lifted as firefighters continue battle on Lake fire

LA Times  

Officials lifted additional evacuation orders that had been issued Friday evening for the Lake fire but kept previous orders in place as the fire continued to pose a threat to some residents. The Lake fire began near Lake Hughes on Wednesday. Within hours it had quickly scorched 10,500 acres as it raced west toward the 5 and northeast toward residents …

Watch: Lake fire spawns ‘terrifying’ fire tornado as it burns through Angeles National Forest
4 years, 4 months ago

Watch: Lake fire spawns ‘terrifying’ fire tornado as it burns through Angeles National Forest

LA Times  

Hours after the massive Lake fire exploded in the Angeles National Forest near the 5 Freeway on Wednesday, the blaze exhibited extreme and alarming behavior, at one point forming a tornado-like flaming vortex. California Fire in Lake Hughes area destroys at least 3 structures The Lake fire in the Angeles National Forest started near the 5 Freeway and rapidly spread, …

Lake fire: Evacuation zones, road closures, shelters
4 years, 4 months ago

Lake fire: Evacuation zones, road closures, shelters

LA Times  

A plume of smoke from the Lake fire in Lake Hughes is seen from a pedestrian bridge in Canyon Country in the Santa Clarita Valley on Wednesday, Aug. 12. The Lake fire has burned more than 10,000 acres in northern Los Angeles County. As of Wednesday night, Aug. 12, it is threatening homes in remote locations near Lake Hughes and …

10,000-acre brush fire burns near Lake Hughes; mandatory evacuations ordered
4 years, 4 months ago

10,000-acre brush fire burns near Lake Hughes; mandatory evacuations ordered

LA Times  

A truck sits along Pine Canyon Road near Lake Hughes early Thursday after the Lake fire burned thousands of acres. A home burns along Pine Canyon Road near Lake Hughes early Thursday after the Lake fire burned thousands of acres. LAKE HUGHES, CALIFORNIA AUGUST 15, 2020-Firefighters from the Santa Barbara County strike team tput out hot spots from the Lake …

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