dixie fire

Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires started by its aging power lines in Northern California, prosecutors announced Monday.

State fire officials say Pacific Gas & Electric power lines sparked last summer’s Dixie Fire in Northern California that swept through five counties and burned more than 1,300 homes and other buildings

Six orphaned bear cubs receiving care at San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center are showing promising progress in their outdoor enclosures.

For generations, the pristine blue waters of Lake Tahoe have drawn nature lovers escaping their concrete jungles for a forest paradise. And though the area just escaped widespread devastation from the recent Caldor Fire, scientists are still seeing signs of the smoke’s impact on the lake’s water quality.

A bear cub that was burned in the massive Dixie Fire has been rescued and is recuperating at the Ramona Wildlife Center, along with a set of orphaned siblings. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford has more on the cubs’ condition.

San Diego Humane Society’s (SDHS) Ramona Wildlife Center welcomed four new cubs to their campus – including triplet bears who sadly became orphaned and a fourth bear who was found with burns from Northern California’s Dixie Fire.