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Map: Gifford Fire grows 10,000 acres overnight to become California’s biggest wildfire of 2025
Gifford started along Highway 166 east of Santa Maria, adjacent to the footprint of the year’s previous biggest fire: Madre, ...
Gifford Fire is now biggest CA wildfire of 2025. See how it compares to other blazes
A massive wildfire burning in eastern San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties is now California’s largest wildfire of the ...
Gifford Fire: Massive blaze in central California threatens more than 800 structures and leaves 3 injured
The Gifford Fire scorched more than 113 square miles of coastal Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, with 3% ...
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Direct Relief details free N95 mask distribution locations across Santa Barbara County as area fires continue to send up plumes of smoke and ash
The press release below, in English and Spanish, from Direct Relief details free N95 mask distribution sites as the largest ...
Gifford Fire in Santa Barbara County burns more than 60,000 acres, forces evacuations
The Gifford Fire was first reported Friday near the Gifford trailhead in Los Padres National Forest, around 15 miles east of ...
‘Extreme’ California wildfire rages in hot weather — with only 21% of the inferno contained, threatening thousands
The Gifford Fire is burning through thousands of acres becoming California’s largest blaze of the year and threatening thousands of homes and areas near Los Padres National Forest in the ...
Diablo Canyon scales back power as Gifford Fire grows to California’s largest in 2025
The nuclear power plant has reduced output from one of its units due its transmission lines’ proximity to the fire.
Hundreds flee forest fire in California
A fierce forest fire was raging in the US state of California on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes.