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September 01September 01
Evacuation Orders Lifted for Chaparral Fire, Which is 50% Contained
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All evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted for the 1,427-acre Chaparral Fire in Riverside and San Diego counties, which remained at 50% containment Wednesday. The fire erupted last weekend at the edge of the Cleveland National Forest in southwest Riverside County. Mandatory evacuations had been ordered for residents north of the Tenaja Truck Trail, […]

Ceci Partridge
August 17August 17
Fire tornado killed firefighter near Redding, California
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In the history of California wildfires there has never been anything like it: A churning tornado filled with fire, the size of three football fields. An official report describes in chilling detail the intensity of the rare fire phenomenon and how quickly it took the life of Redding firefighter Jeremy Stoke, who was enveloped in […]
August 08August 08
Fighting Extreme Fire Behavior
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Experts warn firefighters in California are facing fires that are more unpredictable and dangerous than ever. “These fires are getting to the point of where the behavior is so extreme there’s conditions and behavior, fire behavior that firefighters have never seen before and that’s a problem,” says Edward Smith, a forest ecologist with The Nature […]

Kitty Alvarado

Evacuation Orders Lifted for Chaparral Fire, Which is 50% Contained