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A car fire spread to vegetation in the Altamont Pass on Thursday night. Fire officials say the fire has spread to 100 acres. 

A 44-year-old man who reportedly drove a truck for more than four miles without a right front tire is suspected of sparking a blaze that burned 36 acres in Sonoma County this week, authorities said Thursday.

The Park Fire northeast of the city of Chico has grown to nearly 125,000 acres by Thursday night.

Officials said the temperature got to 106 degrees.

The Death Valley tourist burned his feet walking barefoot on the popular Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, where temperatures exceeded 123 degrees F, park rangers said.

Hundreds of wildfires burning across the western U.S. and Canada are spewing dense smoke that is being carried hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away.

Homeless people can make do without a lot of things. But no one can make do without an adequate supply of water. Marin County, one of the nation's richest counties, is where one woman has been told to stop providing water to a major homeless encampment along northbound Highway 101.

The County Medical Examiner's Office is investigating 28 potential heat-related deaths since July 1st.

Signorello Estate in Napa and Sterling Vineyards in Calistoga have reopened with state-of-the-art upgrades after years of renovations and construction. They were devastated in separate wildfires that tore through wine country.

Authorities are searching for suspects seen running from the origin point of the Hawarden Fire that destroyed several homes and forced Riverside residents to evacuate over the weekend.