The Observatory narrowly escaped being consumed by wildfire as fire crews worked overnight to beat back flames in the foothills above east San Jose. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) New maps ...

THIS IS JUST THE FIRST BATCH OF COUNTY MAPS TO COME OUT. Officials at Cal Fire announced the second phase of new "fire hazard" maps on Monday. These maps show which areas of the last 15 years have ...

Cal Fire released the new draft maps only weeks after devastating fires ravaged Los Angeles County for over a week in January, burning down thousands of structures, including homes, and destroying ...

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Firefighter Chris Oliver walks between grapevines as a helicopter drops water over a wildfire burning near a winery in Santa Rosa in 2017. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) ...

The release comes just weeks after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles County triggered questions around the accuracy of Cal Fire’s mapping process. The maps are being ...

That compares with one of 35 cities seeing such a decrease for Cal Fire's inland Northern California map released two weeks ago. The release comes just weeks after the devastating Palisades and Eaton ...

To the north, while only 5 acres in unincorporated Lake County carried the highest risk designation before, that figure climbed to 10,881 acres in the Cal Fire map published for the area Feb.

The new maps include Oakland and Santa Rosa, scenes of deadly fires, along with Northern California’s wine country. New fire hazard maps for the entire state will be released by March 24 ...

SO THIS IS TRACY CHIEF RANDALL BRADLEY HEADS THE SOUTH SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY AND HAS BEEN ANTICIPATING CAL FIRE’S RELEASE OF THE FIRE SEVERITY MAPS. SO 6000 HOMES AND THIS IS WHAT ...

China's military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin - after Vietnam published a map defining what it considers its territory in the body of water between the two countries.