Cal Fire’s total base wildfire protection budget has nearly tripled over the past 10 years, from $1.1 billion in 2014‑15 to $3 billion in 2023‑24.
Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, are burning across Los Angeles.
Just over $100 million was cut from California's wildfire and forest resilience fund in the latest budget, though total spending has grown sharply since 2014.
California is years behind in implementing a 2020 law aiming to make it harder for homes to burn during a wildfire.
Accounts impersonating CAL FIRE are showing up on social media platforms. These accounts are also soliciting donations from the public.
Canada and Mexico have sent firefighting crews to help battle the blazes in the Los Angeles area, and Ukraine also has offered assistance. But social media posts misleadingly claim "$00,000,000" in "foreign aid" has been offered to the U.
Fire agencies are investigating whether downed Southern California Edison utility ... according to the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. It was 89% contained and evacuation orders ...
Attorneys argue the utility failed to de-energize power lines despite warnings. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is still investigating the fire's origin.
according to a Monday update from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also known as CalFire. Through the California Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, incarcerated people are ...
according to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection data. The recovery maps give residents the ability to identify the conditions at their homes, even before evacuation orders are ...
At the HME Ahrens-Fox plant along Chicago Drive in Wyoming Wednesday, workers were finishing engines that will go to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (more commonly known ...
Of the three major fires still burning in the Los Angeles area, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, said Monday the Palisades Fire was 14% contained and has ...