Fires

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During this Wildfire Awareness Week, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection urges homeowners to prepare their families and homes for the threat of wildfire as we move into a particularly dry summer season.

Sacramento city firefighter Jeffrey Coats pulled the kinks out of the hose to make sure it was ready in case the situation blew. He smelled natural gas. Everybody smelled fumes the second they drove up to the house on 25th Avenue. They could smell them from the street.

One person was reported dead after Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District crews extinguished a fire Saturday morning in a North Highlands mobile home park.

The Moonlight fire was the U.S. Forest Service's worst nightmare.

Documents the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day and other papers reviewed by The Bee reveal a ranger's accusations and Forest Service managers' concerns that they could cause a legal nightmare.

A federal judge has decided in favor of the U.S. Forest Service in a dispute over fire-damaged timber volumes with Randy Pew, owner of a Plumas County logging company.

Once again, human error has cost Pacific Gas and Electric Co. millions of dollars.

The American Red Cross reports that volunteers are assisting an adult and child who were displaced from their south Sacramento home Wednesday morning by a fire in which a relative died.

An emergency state mandate to charge 800,000 rural homeowners up to $150 a year for Cal Fire's wildlands fire prevention services is drawing opposition in rural counties.

The nine-story Capitol Terraces Apartments were evacuated Monday evening after a fire broke out in a unit on the first floor shortly after 6 p.m.

An early afternoon fire at an apartment complex on Pinata Way in Sacramento displaced three families and damaged all the units in a fourplex Sunday.

West Lake Tahoe residents and visitors can expect to see smoke from a prescribed fire operation the next few days.

An fire that ripped through a North Highlands home early Wednesday was intentionally set, according to the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.

Arson and homicide detectives are asking a terrifying question: Was this a double homicide – or a murder-suicide?

A Sacramento federal judge has avoided making public a set of documents sought by The Bee that were offered to support a critical motion in a bitter legal battle over how a 2007 wildfire started and who should pay for damages it caused.

Fire officials are warning people not to leave candles unattended, citing a structure fire late Wednesday afternoon that sent a resident to a hospital suffering from smoke inhalation.

A Sacramento federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments today on a Bee challenge to sealing documents in a legal slugfest between the government and Sierra Pacific Industries over the origin of a monster wildfire in 2007 and who should pay for the devastation it wrought.

An hourlong meeting Monday between Randy Pew, a Plumas County logger, and Randy Moore, regional forester for the U.S. Forest Service, resulted in no specific solutions.

How a dispute between a local logger and the U.S. Forest Service is resolved could affect the economic future of the timber-dependent Greenville, and local leaders are waiting on the outcome of a meeting today between the logger and the agency's regional forester to try to resolve the issue.

About 50 people were rescued Saturday from Liberty Island as fires fueled by high winds burned nearly 150 acres.

An Arden Arcade man was killed when his home caught fire Saturday night.

Sacramento Metro firefighters were kept busy Thursday morning putting out two large fires: one started by a vehicle in a carport and the other possibly Christmas tree-related.

An 80-something Sacramento couple planning their first yuletide as newlyweds lost almost everything they owned in a Christmas Eve fire that destroyed their Arden Arcade home.

An extended family of Liberian refugees who suffered a devastating fire earlier this month at their Capay Valley farm are celebrating Christmas with a sense of hope, thanks to the support of friends and strangers.

As fire investigators worked to determine the cause of Monday's fire that destroyed two businesses in Citrus Heights, managers of the shopping center announced that one of the firms will reopen next week just down the street.

Several hours after fire erupted at a Tuesday Morning store in Citrus Heights – sending up a huge plume of black smoke that could be seen across the region – firefighters poured thousands of gallons of water on the store's smoldering remains.

U.S. Forest Service fuel-management crews plan prescribed fire projects in south and west Lake Tahoe throughout next week, beginning Monday, weather permitting.

Fire crews in Lassen Volcanic National Park plan to conduct two prescribed burns starting next week, weather permitting.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will conduct prescribed burns in the Sly Park Recreation Area, south of Highway 50 near Pollock Pines, today through Wednesday.

Fire investigators have completed their on-site work but have not determined the causes of fires that occurred Thursday in two buildings on the California State University, Sacramento, campus.

Fires that authorities called suspicious shut down two buildings at California State University, Sacramento, on Thursday afternoon, and another burned in a garbage can outside a third building.

Fire investigators are looking into the origin and cause of a blaze at a Granite Bay home where a man was found dead.

Recent rains and cooler weather have reduced fire dangers in northwest California, leading the federal Bureau of Land Management to lift fire restrictions in that area.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officials, facing criticism after last week's pipeline fire in Roseville, stressed their commitment to public safety to a packed room of city residents.

Pacific Gas & Electric officials will address Roseville residents' concerns about last week's pipe rupture and fire at today's City Council meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. at 311 Vernon St.

U.S. Forest Service crews will begin prescribed fire operations today near the west end of Ward Canyon on Lake Tahoe's west shore.

In an unusual exercise, U.S. Forest Service crews are not fighting a lightning-strike fire high in the Sierra.

The wildfire near Ruth in Trinity County that started about noon Friday was 95 percent contained as of Tuesday night, according to the National Forest Service.

Utility officials pledged to find the cause of a natural gas fire in the street that forced the closure of the Cirby-Way-Riverside Avenue intersection in Roseville.

A fire that started Friday afternoon near the southern Trinity County town of Ruth has charred 1,300 acres in the Mad River area of the Six Rivers National Forest.

Fire officials are asking the public to help identify the person responsible for a series of arson fires along the American River Parkway in recent days.

It appears that a bicycling arsonist continues to set fires along the American River Parkway.

Two Carmichael fires have been determined to have been unintentional, officials said this week.

More than 70 people were displaced Sunday by two large apartment fires in Arden Arcade and Carmichael.

After several recent fires in El Dorado County were caused by vehicles, fire officials are warning that motorists can help prevent wildlands fires by making sure that their vehicles are properly maintained.

A calm, take-charge dispatcher, quick action by firefighters and police, and plenty of good breaks were were credited with preventing a catastrophe in Lincoln last week.

A fire burned most of a two-story home on the corner of Cavendish Way and Glen Ivy Court in south Sacramento before noon Friday.

Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats are pursuing a firefighting fee on rural homeowners significantly higher than the $90 charge passed last week by California's fire board.