Wildfires

Homeowners in the urban wildland interface are getting multiple shocks from massive insurance increases, less coverage and outright cancellations.

Scientists say it’s too soon to draw conclusions about the lasting damage that record-setting wildfires will have on Lake Tahoe. But they’re not wasting time. Many are expected to present their research plans to the Tahoe Science Advisory Council.

The massive sequoias grow on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. The General Sherman Tree stands 275 feet and is over 36 feet in diameter at the base, according to the U.S. National Park Service.

Cal Fire officials announced they have arrested an arson suspect in connection to the Hopkins Fire that started in Mendocino County on Sunday. 

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued an air quality advisory for Wednesday because smoke from wildfires across Northern California is expected to move into the region.   

Cal Fire has shared a moving photo of crews from multiple Bay Area fire agencies raising the American flag where a post office once stood in the fire ravaged community of Grizzly Flats in El Dorado County.

The new Colony and Paradise fires are burning dangerously close to some of California's most cherished trees.

Although no formal findings have been reached, PG&E has acknowledged to California power regulators that a tree leaning into one of its power lines may have started the Dixie Fire, which has scorched nearly 1 million acres to become the second-largest in state history.

Firefighters are keeping an extremely cautious eye on the Hopkins Fire, which sprang to life Sunday in the tiny town of Calpella, just north of Ukiah.

The grilling came before a federal judge who is overseeing PG&E’s criminal probation for a felony conviction after the utility’s gas lines blew up part of a suburban neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010.

A PG&E worker who saw some of the first flames of the Dixie Fire is set to testify in San Francisco.

Firefighters deal with trauma, stress and hazardous conditions and research shows suicide and cancer are the top two ways firefighters die.

A fire weather watch was issued for Thursday evening through Friday evening in much of the interior of Northern California due to a weather system that is expected to bring a chance of thunderstorms with lightning and erratic gusts.

Hot temperatures and the possibility of thunderstorms have prompted a fire weather watch for parts of the North and East Bay hills.

Firefighters in Sonoma County are investigating a series of small vegetation fires that started Monday night near Healdsburg.

Additional evacuation orders were eased in the South Lake Tahoe area on Tuesday, as firefighters continued to make progress in the battle against the massive Caldor Fire.

A firefighter was injured in Oakley on Tuesday, during a rollover accident while responding to a grass fire.