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News Articles: California wildfires

Rich Snyder, who retired as the fire marshal of Sierra Madre, Calif., now works for Allied Disaster Defense, a California company that hardens homes against wildfire. One strategy is covering air vents with ember-blocking mesh.

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  • Business

Preparing homes for wildfires is big business that's only getting started

Climate change, technological leaps, panicked insurers, the shifting sense of responsibility: All are powering the still-nascent, but fast-growing industry of preparing homes for wildfires.

September 15, 2023
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
The fire department in Glendale, Calif., has been hiring Fire Grazers Inc. to help reduce the city's wildfire risk.

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  • Environment

In California, wildfires are prevented by crews of unlikely firefighters: goats

The four-legged creatures with digestive tracts of steel make easy work of consuming vegetation that typically fuels wildfires.

August 10, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Investigators walk around rotor blades from a crashed helicopter on a burned hillside in Cabazon, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Three people were killed when their helicopter crashed into a hillside after colliding with another chopper as the team battled a wildfire, emergency officials said. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)

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  • National

3 people were killed fighting a California wildfire after two helicopters collided

The helicopters were responding to a vegetation fire that spread from a nearby structure fire. One helicopter made a safe landing with no injuries, while all in the second helicopter were killed.

August 07, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Gnarled, tall and all-seeing.

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  • Environment

Joshua trees are dying. This new legislation hopes to tackle that

The iconic spindly plants are under threat from a variety of factors, including climate change and development, and the California legislature is stepping in to help.

July 06, 2023
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Firefighters coordinate efforts at a burning property while battling the Fairview Fire on Monday, near Hemet, Calif.

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  • National

California battles wildfires and faces blackouts during a brutal heat wave

Triple-digit temperatures are expected as energy officials warn the electrical load on Tuesday could reach the state's highest demand ever. Four deaths were reported as multiple wildfires burned.

September 06, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A search and rescue canine leaves a home leveled by the McKinney Fire on Monday in Klamath National Forest, Calif.

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  • National

Four people have died in Northern California's huge wildfire

The death toll doubled when two additional bodies were found within the burn zone of the McKinney Fire, the state's largest blaze of the year.

August 02, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A helicopter drops water on the Washburn Fire burning in Yosemite National Park on Saturday.

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  • National

Wildfire near Yosemite National Park threatens its largest grove of sequoia trees

Firefighters are proactively working to protect the giant trees by deploying a ground sprinkler system and clearing any materials that could fuel the fire.

July 11, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
By the time it was contained, the Caldor fire had destroyed more than 1,000 structures, damaged 81, injured at least five people and forced some 50,000 people to evacuate from the Lake Tahoe area.

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  • National

A father and son were arrested in connection with California's massive Caldor Fire

David Scott Smith, 66, and Travis Shane Smith, 32, are accused of "reckless arson" in connection with the Caldor Fire, which burned more than 220,000 acres across three California counties this fall.

December 09, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
The 2020 Castle Fire burned the Alder Creek sequoia grove with extreme intensity, killing many of the 1,000-year-old trees there. Without any green foliage, the trees can't survive or resprout.

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  • Climate

A Single Fire Killed Thousands Of Sequoias. Scientists Are Racing To Save The Rest

The world's largest trees are adapted to wildfires. But with fires getting more extreme, scientists warn that giant sequoias are running out of time.

September 17, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Prescribed burns, like this one in Humboldt County, Calif., reduce the underbrush without destroying trees.

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  • Environment

Why The South Is Decades Ahead Of The West In Wildfire Prevention

Another destructive fire season has Western states searching for ways to prevent it. The Southeast just might have the answers: setting controlled fires before the wildfires come.

September 02, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
This Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, image provided by Maxar Technologies, shows a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), a true-color image overview of the wildfires at Lake Tahoe, in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Climate change has made the region warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme and wildfires more destructive, according to scientists.

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  • Weather

California Wildfire Races Toward Lake Tahoe After Mass Evacuation

The popular vacation haven normally filled with tens of thousands of summer tourists emptied out Monday as the massive Caldor Fire rapidly expanded.

August 31, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Controlled burns, like this one in Lassen Volcanic National Park, reduce the risk of extreme fires by clearing flammable brush.

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  • Environment

With Extreme Fires Burning, Forest Service Stops 'Good Fires' Too

Controlled burns help reduce wildfire risk by clearing out overgrown vegetation. The U.S. Forest Service is suspending them, concerning fire scientists.

August 10, 2021
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  • Lauren Sommer
Following the Dixie Fire, flames burn in a tree in the Canyondam area of Plumas County, Calif., Friday, Aug. 6.

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  • Environment

Dixie, Bootleg, Goose. How Wildfires Get Their Name

Across the United States,108 wildfires are burning, mainly in the west. What they're called is important, just as it is with hurricanes and other disasters.

August 09, 2021
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By:
  • Josie Fischels
Flames from the Dixie Fire consume a home on Highway 89 south of Greenville, Calif., on Thursday.

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  • National

The Dixie Fire Explodes To Become The 3rd-Largest Wildfire In California's History

The fire raging in Northern California was whipped up by high temperatures and strong winds. It incinerated much of the Gold Rush-era community of Greenville earlier this week.

August 06, 2021
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Author Interviews

Given The Choice Between Prison Life And Fighting Wildfires, These Women Chose Fire

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with writer Jaime Lowe about her new book, Breathing Fire, which tells the stories of the incarcerated women who are part of California's wildfire crews.

July 30, 2021
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  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Alejandra Marquez Janse,
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