Wildfires

A spokesperson for the Garnet Fire burning in Fresno County, says wildland firefighters with tree-climbing expertise who are known as “smokejumpers” were dispatched to the area to try and put out the fire burning in the canopies of the beloved trees.

The Madre Fire is California’s largest blaze so far this year. It ripped through grasslands after breaking out Wednesday in southeastern San Luis Obispo County.

The family of a helicopter pilot who died when his helicopter crashed in 2020 while fighting a wildfire near Coalinga reached a $15 million settlement with the company that maintained the aircraft.

Six conservancies throughout the state will oversee work largely in Southern California and the Sierra Nevada.

More than 200 structures were burned by the Borel Fire, according to a Kern County Fire Department report. That includes 63 homes, 55 mobile homes and 34 motor homes.

The wildfire ignited one week ago off Highway 178 in Kern County, California, and exploded across the Kern River Valley.

Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled to Kern County Tuesday, July 30, 2024, to survey damage from the Borel Fire that has forced thousands of evacuations and has destroyed a local historic town.

Weather conditions around the Borel Fire in Kern County are hot, humid and windy – aiding the fire’s rapid spread.

The Borel Fire burning in the Kern County mountains since last Wednesday grew to 50,000 acres by Sunday night after destroying the small gold-mining town of Havilah.

Firefighters are battling an extreme wildfire spreading in the Kern County mountains, which swept through the small historic community of Havilah on Friday night.