Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some ...

Hannigan pointed out that many local jurisdictions, including San Diego and Napa counties, the Orange County Fire Authority, Rancho Santa Fe, San Rafael, Santa Rosa, Ben Lomond, Humboldt and ...

HUMBOLDT – The City of Humboldt is exploring robotic lawn mowers to assist in maintaining its parks. The robotic mower will supplement traditional mowers in park operations. Michael Ulriksen ...

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of violence. Combining pedestrian deaths, murder investigations and fatal police shootings, Humboldt County saw a total of seven reported ...

What is happening in LA and has happened in every major conflagration in the U.S. in the last 200 years is really a wildland fire that transitions into an urban conflagration. When a wildland ...

If it had reached the UCSD campus with all its groves of very flammable eucalyptus trees, there would have been a conflagration. There was talk a couple of years ago about UCSD cutting down the ...

Most pretentious teenagers in the 20th century, before smart-phones became ubiquitous, had a favorite doomy book they liked to be seen “reading” — though precious little of that got done, the tome in ...

Rising winds threaten to spread the conflagration to suburban neighborhoods. Residents nearby were ordered to evacuate or warned to be ready to leave quickly ahead of the fire. The blaze prompted ...

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