A new wildfire was reported today at 11:16 p.m. in Santa Cruz County, California. Flora Fire has been burning on private land ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 2:52 a.m. in Santa Cruz County, California. Bear Fire has been burning on private land.

The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.

A vegetation fire sparked by cooking at Natural Bridges State Park on Thursday afternoon led to evacuations and briefly threatened the park's visitors center, firefighters said.

The Fire Hazard Severity Zones are determined by the state fire marshal based on an area’s physical characteristics like ...

Three new video games created by faculty at the University of California Santa Cruz are helping people prepare for wildfire ...

At the outset of the blaze, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office estimated that some 500 acres were already burned at the scene, near the 10000 block of Highway 166 in the Los Padres National Forest.

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said that the fire was "wind-driven and threatening multiple structures in the Apple Valley area." ...

Three days after a massive explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Esparto left seven people missing and two others injured, personnel for the Yolo County Coroner’s Division confirmed the ...

SANTA CRUZ — A blaze caused by an unauthorized cooking fire within Natural Bridges State Beach on a warm and windy Thursday afternoon was quickly contained by the Santa Cruz Fire Department in ...