March 4, 2021/0 Comments/in News, Weather, Wildfire impact /by John Mead Below are summaries from the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook, provided by the National Interagency Fire Center, for the period of March...
A brush fire spreads through a canyon in a residential neighborhood in Carlsbad in January. Courtesy OnScene.TV California’s rainy season now starts a month later than it did decades ago, prolonging the state’s destructive wildfire season, the American...
It’s time to make U.S. disaster policy more effective and equitable. [Photo: David McNew/Getty Images] The year 2020 broke disaster records across the country in destructive and expensive ways. The Atlantic had so many hurricanes, meteorologists ran out of...
BY ROY WRIGHT SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE A wildfire in Orange County’s Silverado Canyon, the Bond Fire, grows to 2,000 acres early on December 3, 2020 prompting a number of mandatory evacuation orders from the local fire authority. The blaze began with a house...
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA — NOV. 15, 2018 — An aerial view of Paradise off of Clark Road on Nov. 15, 2018. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Paradise, Calif., was almost completely destroyed by the Camp Fire in November 2018, but is now following the guidelines of a...
An aerial view of the damage caused by the Tubbs Fire in the Coffey Park neighborhood in Santa Rosa, CA, in October 2017.Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS. In early October 2017, I was enjoying an annual trip with a group of firefighter friends in Humbolt County,...
