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One person is dead and three people are injured after the car California Border Patrol were chasing drove of the side of the road near Jamul and crashed head-on into a tree Saturday evening, a Cal Fire official said.

A California Border Patrol pursuit in Jamul on Christmas evening left one person dead and three people injured after the car CBP were chasing drove off the side of the road and crashed head-on into a tree, a Cal Fire official said. According to San Diego County Cal Fire Battalion Chief Kari Thompson, at approximately 6:04 p.m. Saturday, Border Patrol...

Santee residents and firefighters put up a courageous fight against a Thanksgiving brushfire that crawled within feet of property lines along Walker Canyon.

A homeowner used a garden hose to defend his home from a brush fire that sparked in Santee on Thanksgiving.

NBC 7’s Dana Griffin spoke to a Romana man who has a backup plan for cooking Thanksgiving dinner.

A Cal Fire Captain said all of San Diego County is susceptible to wildfires.

The chief of California’s forestry and wildland firefighting agency will retire next month after shepherding the state through three historic wildfire seasons.

With cooler fall temperatures and higher humidity levels reducing local wildfire threats, a six-month suspension of back-country burn permits in the San Diego area will lapse on Monday, officials announced.

A geography professor at UC Riverside says aggressive wildfire-fighting tactics don’t allow wildfire fuels to burn like they once did, keeping the doors open for massive fires in the future

Cal Fire partnered with North County Fire and the Rainbow Municipal Water District to put the 5,000-gallon heli-hydrant into service.

Fire hydrants are vital for fire engines on surface streets. This new tool brings similar efficiency to firefighting helicopter crews. NBC 7’s Joe Little has the story.

Cal Fire said Friday its investigators were unable to determine what caused the destructive Glass Fire to spark in the North Bay last fall.

Firefighters stopped flames short of damaging homes on the Viejas Indian Reservation Wednesday.

Firefighters managed to contain a vegetation fire in Valley Center Wednesday that was extremely close to homes prompting evacuation orders for the area.

Firefighters managed to contain a vegetation fire in the Valley Center Wednesday that was extremely close to homes prompting evacuation orders for the area.

A vegetation fire sparked Monday in a mountainous area north of Valley Center and burned an RV before firefighters halted its spread at three acres, according to Cal Fire San Diego.

Here’s everything we know about the Mesa Fire that sparked along SR-76 near Pala Casino in San Diego County on June 23, 2021.

San Diego County leaders are expected to pass a $7 billion budget with an emphasis on mental and behavioral health services and addressing homelessness. Plus, the county reported 16 new cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant, all among unvaccinated individuals. And, the first Mid-Coast Trolley will hit the tracks. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez has What’s Up for June 29, 2021.