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Led by an eastern wind, a cloud of hazy, sometimes smelly smoke wafted over parts of the Bluffton area on Monday. It originated from three controlled burns in the neighboring Jasper County, local fire ...
A family was displaced when a fire destroyed their home on the 400 block of 13th Street in Jasper on Sunday morning. The Jasper Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to the fire at about 9 a.m.
Emergency crews are on the scene of an active house fire in Jasper. According to the Jasper Police Department, the initial ...
An evacuation order was issued for residents along Highway 6, north of Bishop, as the Silver Fire exceeded 1,000 acres. The map above shows the evacuation area in red. For latest updates ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of California on new state maps published Monday, as fire officials rush to keep up with the impacts of climate change on the Golden ...
CalFire released the last of its updated fire hazard severity maps on Monday, showing a 3.5 million acre expansion of Southern California’s zones. The largest increases were in the Antelope Valley and ...
Cal Fire reported this week in a release of new maps for areas under local and county fire agency jurisdiction. According to Cal Fire data, San Diego County has 157,338 acres with “very high ...
A 10-acre brush fire in Collier Collier threatened homes and closed a park. Twelve counties are under drought or increased fire danger conditions. The number of wildfires increased Wednesday ...
“We’ve been giving people fire disclosures for I don’t even know how long.” If anything, the maps are likely to understate the extent of the danger. As the Los Angeles Times reported in ...
San Diego County just got a lot redder. Most cities in the region saw an increase in land labeled a “very high” fire hazard, according to new maps released by Cal Fire Monday. This comes as ...