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Hand crews play a critical role in fighting fires. The crews, in some cases, hike miles to the site of a fire or are dropped onto a site by helicopters to cut dry brush with chainsaws and other tools in an effort to prevent the blaze from spreading.

State fire officials say rain and snow falling well below average, combined with state water shortages, have them bracing for a wildfire season potentially worse than last year’s, which was the most devastating in state history.

NBC 7’s Allie Raffa gives us a look at the concerns from Rancho Peñasquitos .

Operation Collaboration is a partnership between San Diego CalFire and 21 Fire Departments in San Diego county to help provide COVID-19 vaccines to rural and remote areas. The program is putting hundreds of paramedics to work, “We’re able to put them to use out in these rural sites where folks that have mobility issues and have a harder time getting…

People who qualify are getting vaccinations in remote and rural areas thanks to CalFire San Diego and 21 fire departments working together around the county. NBC 7’s Bridget Naso spoke to one couple desperate to get a second dose.

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.

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.

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.