Cal Fire said the region experienced 173 lightning strikes within a 24 hour period, five of which were confirmed within the ...

Despite the destruction the CZU fires brought to the Santa Cruz Mountains, prospective homebuyers continue to look in part ...

California’s oldest state park — Big Basin Redwoods — thrived for 118 years, but it took less than 24 hours for almost all of ...

CAL FIRE is on alert tonight, keeping a close eye on the threat of dry lightning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The risk is ...

Lookout photojournalist Kevin Painchaud describes what he saw in the days and weeks after the CZU Lightning Complex fire ignited in 2020 and the resilience of Santa Cruz Mountains communities in the ...

For the second time in less than a week, local fire crews battled a wildfire in the dense forest and steep terrain above ...

Those two fires were among 22 in the TCU September Lightning Complex, in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties. On Wednesday, six of them were 150 acres or larger. Cal Fire put the complex’s combined area ...

CAL FIRE CZU says they put out a car fire and stopped it from spreading to nearby vegetation Thursday morning.

In Santa Cruz County, firefighters from the city's fire department, CAL FIRE CZU, and Scotts Valley Fire prevented a vehicle fire from becoming a wildland fire near Dimeo Lane and Highway 1, north of ...

Firefighters quickly contained a vehicle fire near Santa Cruz that spread to an adjacent structure and another vehicle, preventing a potential wildfire.

Proactive fuel mitigation measures near watersheds are a vital step toward protecting water quality as California wildfires grow in intensity and frequency, experts warn.

Last year, there were 7,553 wildfires in Cal Fire's jurisdiction. Of those, 1,668 were picked up by the cameras, said Cal ...