Fires

A low pressure system is bringing cool, unsettled weather with isolated showers to the Sacramento region today.

The Panther fire in Tehama County has burned 10,000 acres and was only 10 percent contained as of Thursday night, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Two fires burning in mountainous terrain south of Highway 32, about 40 miles east of Chico, began within hours of each other Wednesday morning, a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection official said.

A fire erupting in a shed at Sierra Pacific Industries' Quincy sawmill destroyed one building and damaged the plant's electrical system, temporarily closing all operations.

Seasonal firefighters were at work in Jackson on Thursday, finishing up a weeklong fire training academy where they practiced forming firebreaks, hand tool safety and deploying fire shelters.

A fire April 11 at a historic downtown Truckee building is being called suspicious by the Truckee Police Department, which is seeking the public's help during its investigation.

In a scene that might have made Smokey Bear cringe, on a 100-degree day last July, a Sacramento man – in full view of his family and other witnesses – tossed a 2-inch diameter firework into a remote Placer County swimming hole.

As a new fire season approaches, Lassen Volcanic National Park officials are holding community meetings that reflect lessons learned from last year's 28,000-acre Reading fire.

One of Truckee's most historic buildings, the C.B. White House, was damaged in a fire early Thursday.

Two people were critically burned in an explosive fire that erupted early Wednesday at a south Sacramento home.

Sacramento firefighters made quick work of a midmorning fire Monday at the Zinfandel Grille on Fair Oaks Boulevard near Howe Avenue.

U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will conduct prescribed fire operations in the Cold Creek area near South Lake Tahoe beginning Monday.

The U.S. Forest Service's Truckee Ranger District plans a prescribed burn today of 50 acres in the Stampede Reservoir area.

Property owners subject to an annual state fire protection fee may be billed later in the year than expected.

A fire on Saturday evening destroyed a motor home and damaged an adjacent house belonging to a Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District employee, officials reported.

A blind 3-year-old pug gave its Citrus Heights family first warning of a fire Sunday night, officials said.

Gov. Jerry Brown wants to expand how the state can spend new fire fee proceeds, while Republican legislators want to kill the charge entirely.

Sacramento police said they are investigating the death of 32-year-old Patrick Kendrick as a homicide after his body was discovered Friday in an apartment fire on Norwood Avenue.

A fire that heavily damaged three vehicles at a car dealership in Arden Arcade was caused by someone stealing gasoline, according to fire officials.

A fire in Arden Arcade sheds light on the importance of smoke alarms mounted in hallways.

A Citrus Heights couple awoke early Saturday after an unattended fire in their fireplace caused a raging blaze in the home's attic.

An early Saturday fire at Mikuni Sushi in Fair Oaks activated the restaurant's sprinkler system, flooding the popular eatery.

A preliminary investigation failed to find anything criminal in the death of a woman whose body was found Thursday in a burned south Sacramento County duplex.

Two people were transported to an area hospital Thursday night with injuries suffered during a two-alarm fire that damaged eight apartment units in the Foothill Farms area.

The fire that gutted Jennifer Taylor's home last August destroyed nearly everything her family owned. And it got harder from there.

Sacramento Metropolitan firefighters fought an aggressive fire at a vacant store in Carmichael that left $300,000 in damage in its wake, according to authorities.

Oroville-area firefighters mopped up Friday after a daylong fire knocked an underground hydroelectric generating plant out of commission and caused an estimated several million dollars in damage.

It was a rough Thanksgiving day for a half-dozen families forced to flee their Citrus Heights apartment complex by a fire late Wednesday.

A massive fire burned Thursday in one of the hydroelectric generating units connected to Oroville Dam on the Feather River.

Two people died Sunday night in a fire that destroyed an old house in Pilot Hill.

The third fire traced to electrical problems in 30 days has prompted a suburban fire district to caution homeowners about doing electrical repairs themselves.

Twenty-five homes in the Somerset area of El Dorado County were threatened Tuesday afternoon by a fire that burned 15 acres of heavy brush.

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Department officials say that earlier fire damage to the Value Inn in Rancho Cordova was so extensive it was hard to tell whether Monday afternoon's fire actually resulted in any new damage to the troubled structure.

Sacramento Metro firefighters responded to a major blaze early Sunday morning at a two-story house in the 2700 block of Hyanis Way.

The 16 Complex fire, which began last Tuesday, has now burned a little less than 18,000 acres and is 90 percent contained as of 6:30 a.m.

The 16 Complex Fire in the remote Rumsey Canyon area of Colusa County burned almost 18,000 acres by Saturday evening and was reported 71 percent contained, officials said.

The 16 Complex fire, which started Tuesday in a remote area of Colusa County, has burned 16,719 acres and was reported 35 percent contained Friday evening.

A second fire in two weeks at a commercial building on Florin Road is being called suspicious.

The 16 Complex fire – two fires about four miles apart in Colusa County – was reported 10 percent contained with 3,500 acres burned as of Wednesday night.

Hundreds of firefighters converged Tuesday on a remote area of Colusa County where two wildfires combined.

Firefighters rescued a dog from an Arden Arcade home Sunday evening when a grease fire caused heavy damage to the two-story residence.

The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District responded to two fires in a little more than two hours at area preschools.

Fire crews on Wednesday night were close to corralling a wildland fire in the Pilot Hill area that prompted voluntary evacuations for some residents of the rural area.

Rolling rocks and flaming debris forced firefighters out of a canyon Tuesday night near Butt Valley Reservoir, where they were hoping to stop the Chips fire from its steady advance north toward Lake Almanor.

For residents of the Sacramento region, there was little escape from Tuesday's stifling blanket of smoke. With wildfires burning in most every direction, the air was about as bad as it gets: smoky and hot, with only the barest hint of breeze.

The heavy smoke that hung over Sacramento on Monday came from a fire burning on Grizzly Island in Solano County, according to Sacramento County's Regional Fire Dispatch Center.

A stubborn, 2-week-old wildfire continued to rage out of control Monday, forcing some residents in the Feather River Canyon to evacuate while others around the south end of Lake Almanor are under voluntary evacuation orders.

Starting today, rural homeowners will begin receiving bills of up to $150 to cover the wildlands fire prevention services offered by the state in their neighborhoods.

A house across from Winn Park in midtown Sacramento was heavily damaged in a fire late Friday.