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A 3 acre vegetation fire broke out on Saturday afternoon near Lakeside, threatening structures.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection will begin to offer free COVID-19 testing to residents in rural and unincorporated parts of the county beginning Tuesday, the agency announced.

NBC 7 has compiled a list of tips and information from CalFire, the National Weather Service and the County of San Diego to keep you prepared while San Diego County is in a Red Flag Warning.

California is calling in the National Guard for the first time next month to help protect communities from devastating fires like the one that largely destroyed the city of Paradise last fall.

It was a day that was almost unfathomable. An entire town was burned off the map of California. Nearly 14,000 homes were incinerated. All told, 85 people would perish. The oldest was 99; of the 73 bodies that have been identified, 59 were 65 or older. One hundred days later — with the aid of public records showing the locations...

Cal Fire announced 100 percent containment Tuesday afternoon.

In the small northern California community of Keswick, only a handful of homes remain. The air is thick with the smell of smoke and chemicals. The rubble of people’s lives still smoldered a day after the so-called Carr Fire moved through Shasta County like a freight train.

A wildfire that roared with little warning into Northern California’s Shasta County has claimed two lives as thousands of people scrambled to escape before the walls of flames descended from forested hills onto their neighborhoods, officials said Friday. The blaze grew to 75 square miles by Friday night and had leveled at least 500 structures and burned 48,312 acres, leaving...

With wildfires burning in several California counties, we revisit a challenge we gave to one San Diego homeowner – show us what you could grab if given just minutes.

The man who was accused of starting the Cranston Fire in Riverside County grew up in Oceanside.

A brush fire that sparked in Ramona Friday afternoon off Old Julian Highway in Witch Creek threatened an animal boarding facility and destroyed a home on the property.

Fire departments across San Diego are sending teams to help fight the Ferguson Fire that began Friday near the west end of Yosemite National Park.

According to Cal Fire, 95 percent of wildfires in California are sparked by humans in one way or another.

A 4-acre brush fire that erupted on a mountain on Rincon Avenue in unincorporated Escondido Tuesday was started by fireworks, Cal fire said.

Alpine residents who lost homes and property to the West Fire will begin to receive help Monday as San Diego County officials open a Local Assistance Center at the Alpine Library.

36 Homes were destroyed in the fire. NBC 7’s Megan Tevrizian reports from Alpine.

A brush fire burning in San Diego’s East County has destroyed several structures and prompted the evacuation of most of the foothill community of Alpine.

Power has have been restored to more than 900 customers affected by the fire. NBC 7′ Alex Presha has the latest.

The entire San Diego County community stepped up to the plate Friday to help their neighbors in Alpine forced to evacuate their homes due to the threat of the once-raging West Fire.