Cleveland National Forest

Firefighters have stopped the spread of a vegetation fire that grew to 10 acres near Japatul Valley Road, Cal Fire San Diego said Friday. The Hawk Fire was reported at around 1 p.m. near Japatul Valley Road and Red Hawk Ridge. The fire was growing at a moderate rate of spread, Cal Fire said. As SkyRanger 7 flew overhead the…

NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda has the latest details on the vegetation fire out in Japatul Valley

SkyRanger 7 flew over the vegetation fire as fire officials were seen combating the fire.

Cleveland National Forest officials today announced elevated fire restrictions until Jan. 1, 2021, and ordered the closure of Three Sisters & Cedar Creek Fall Trails after a heat advisory was issued by the National Weather Service.

Two popular but strenuous San Diego County hiking trails will be closed this weekend as unseasonably hot temperatures grip the region. The Three Sisters and Cedar Creek Falls hiking trails, which run through the Cleveland National Forest (CNF) between Ramona and Julian, will be temporarily closed from Thursday to Sunday while a National Weather Service heat advisory is in effect,…

Two popular hiking trails in the East County were closed Sunday by Cleveland National Forest authorities. The Cedar Creek Falls Trail and the Three Sisters Falls Trail, running through the national forest between Ramona and Julian, are now closed, authorities said. “Due to the governor’s order and to protect the public safety by limiting the spread of COVID-19, Three...

A group of dedicated volunteers with the San Diego Natural History Museum will lead dozens of hikes across our county’s varied terrain as part of a long-running program meant to get locals to connect with nature.

A look at The San Diego Natural History Museum’s long-running Canyoneers hiking program, which offers free, volunteer-led hikes across the county. NBC 7 speaks with Canyoneers president Stacey Vielma about the program, and why it’s so important. This season, the Canyoneers will offer 80 hikes between September 2019 and June 2020.

California regulators on Thursday approved allowing utilities to cut off electricity to possibly hundreds of thousands of customers to avoid catastrophic wildfires like the one sparked by power lines last year that killed 85 people and largely destroyed the city of Paradise.

Western wildlands beset with increasingly severe fire seasons, including in California, would do well to follow the example of the nation’s Southeast and increase use of preventive prescribed burns, according to a newly published study.

The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, shutting key highways after water and mud rushed into lanes from bare hillsides in wildfire burn areas where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders. In Malibu, where the Woolsey fire last year destroyed homes and burned hillsides bare, officials closed Pacific Coast Highway and many other roadways...

Mandatory evacuations are in place for some residents as a storm brings several days of steady rain to Southern California.

NBC 7’s Danielle Radin talked to locals heading up to the snow near the Cleveland National Forest.

Authorities arrested a woman accused of posing as the wife of a firefighter battling Southern California’s massive Holy Fire in order to scam good Samaritans out of thousands of dollars in donations.

Video from NewsChopper4 shows a flare-up of the Holy fire as it burned in Cleveland National Forest toward the Lake Elsinore area Wednesday Aug. 8, 2018.

Some residents in Alpine feel state and federal authorities could be a doing a better job clearing forests of brush in order to prevent future wildfires.

President Trump threatens to withhold funding if ‘California doesn’t get its act together.’ NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda has reactions from residents.

Santa Ana conditions were expected Tuesday with humidity in single digits and winds in the 20 to 30 mph range.