Fires

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?

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.

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.

Lincoln Fire Chief Dave Whitt said Monday the cause of a propane tanker rail car fire last week was "undetermined, unable to rule out mechanical failure or human error."

A vegetation fire that started Saturday evening in the Cement Hill Road area of Fairfield consumed about 715 acres of grass and oak woodlands before being contained Sunday, fire officials reported.

Lincoln Fire Chief Dave Whitt said it will be at least Monday before a preliminary report is issued on the cause of a propane tanker rail car fire that resulted in the evacuation of approximately 4,800 homes in the city for two days this week.

Lincoln Fire Chief Dave Whitt, 50, was the man at the center of the successful resolution of the tanker propane fire this week – a stubborn fuel fire that had the potential to result in major devastation.

Thousands of relieved Lincoln residents returned to their homes Thursday as state and federal safety officials begin looking into what triggered a frightening and intense 40-hour propane fire in a rail car on the edge of downtown.

Flames are no longer visible from a train propane tanker car that had been burning in Lincoln since Tuesday afternoon and thousands of residents evacuated because of the danger of explosion have been allowed back to their homes.

A mandatory evacuation order remained in place overnight Tuesday in Lincoln after propane coming from a rail tank car caught fire around noon and continued to burn at the Northern Energy tank farm.

U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews are scheduled today to resume prescribed fire operations in the Rubicon Bay area near Lake Tahoe.

The state fire board approved a maximum $90 annual fee on rural homeowners Monday, well below the $150 charge envisioned by lawmakers in their June budget.

U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews are scheduled to resume prescribed fire operations today in the Rubicon Bay area on Lake Tahoe's west shore.

Sacramento firefighters battled a fire Wednesday that sent a plume of black smoke high into the sky north of downtown and sent three firefighters to the hospital for smoke inhalation.

Just north of Highway 180 in Fresno County, a wildfire in mid-June ate through thick grass, burning into oak woodlands and roaring up steep hills.

U.S. Forest Service crews will carry out prescribed burn operations near Rubicon Bay in the Lake Tahoe area beginning today.

Weather and human resources permitting, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will conduct a prescribed burn under the Foresthill Bridge in Placer County on Friday.

A brush fire that consumed more than 400 acres along the Yuba River near Smartsville should be near full containment this morning.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection plans to conduct a prescribed burn Monday under the Foresthill Bridge in Placer County.