CalFire San Diego confirmed that they were assisting the City of Poway, which is 34 miles from San Diego, with a vegetation fire near Pomerado Road and Ted Williams Parkway that broke out around 1 ...

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Critics of California Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed he cut the state's wildfire prevention budget by $101 million a year before the devastating LA wildfires of January 2025. It's true that Newsom ...

By dawn, however, firefighters had made enough progress to make deployment of the planes unnecessary, Cal Fire Capt. Robert Johnson said. In an update around 9:50 a.m., Cal Fire said the forward ...

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.

Ground efforts were undertaken by Task Force Rattlesnake, a joint task force that integrates California Army and Air National Guard members with CALFIRE, the state agency responsible for wildfire ...

Editor's note: This file captures the news of the California wildfires from Tuesday, Jan. 21. For the latest updates on the LA and San Diego fires, follow USA TODAY's coverage for Wednesday, Jan. 22.

according to CALFIRE. Santa Ana winds, which are high-speed winds that blow from the mountains to the coast in California, could spread these devastating blazes further. The Rocky Mountains will ...

Here’s an overview of the fires in San Diego County as of Tuesday morning. Cal Fire and San Diego County Fire said that they were on scene at a vegetation fire that was approximately five acres ...

The two wore fire gear, with Cal Fire shirts underneath, along with helmets and radios, according to the sheriff. When the LAPD unit questioned where the two came from, they said they were with ...

Moving at a slow rate of spread into heavy brush, the fire grew to nearly 40 acres, according to an alert from CalFire. Initially, flames that could be seen from the City of Riverside were not ...

In addition, conditions are expected to remain dry with low humidity, Cal Fire said. Los Angeles fire crews quickly extinguished a small brush fire that broke out Monday near Griffith Observatory.