fires

The Chula Vista Fire Department and Police Department are investigating a string of suspicious fires that occurred in Chula Vista within the past week. The suspicious fires first started on September 17 at around 3:30 a.m. Three brush fires broke out in East Chula Vista. One on Lake Crest Drive, another on Telegraph Canyon Road and Buena Vista Way, and…

NBC 7’s Bridget Naso has more details on the strings of fires that police are investigating in Chula Vista.

A vast swath of a vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state was battling “367 known fires” earlier this week.

The Hennessey Fire burning in Napa County is one of several fires burning as part of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire.

San Diego County firefighters responded to several calls of fires that may have been related to fireworks on the Fourth of July holiday.

At least three brush fires started Sunday across San Diego County in Bay Ho, Ramona and San Ysidro. A brush fire started around 4 p.m. in a canyon in the Bay Ho area, near the 4600 block of Leathers Street. The area is surrounded by housing as well as businesses to the west. The fire was initially about 1 to…

San Diego police are investigating a series of five suspicious fires in the Linda Vista and Morena neighborhoods that occurred late Sunday night. The fires were ignited in trash cans, dumpsters, and dry vegetation. One started in a dumpster at Lauretta and Eureka streets, a densely-populated area near the University of San Diego campus. Many living in the surrounding apartments…

The fires were set with 20 minutes of each other and were walking distance apart. NBC 7’s Dave Summers heard reaction from the community.

The Los Angeles Fire Department evacuated residents on Wednesday morning after a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Fire alarms have been sounding in high-rise buildings across downtown Sydney and Melbourne as dense smoke from distant wildfires confuse electronic sensors. Modern government office blocks in the Australian capital Canberra have been closed because the air inside is too dangerous for civil servants to breathe.

Smoke haze and poor air quality caused by wildfires temporarily suspended practice sessions for the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Tuesday, but qualifying began later in the morning in “very poor” air quality.

The wildfire was behaving erratically last week, and Doug Schutz and his team needed to make a quick decision. So they moved a bulldozer from another job and used it to widen a firebreak. That likely helped prevent hundreds of homes from going up in flames.

U.S. officials said Tuesday they’re planning to send at least another 100 firefighters to Australia to join 159 already in the country battling wildfires that have killed 25 people and destroyed 2,000 homes.

With flames climbing as high as a 15-story building and menacing his supposedly fireproof home on three sides, Justin Kam ran to the laundry room and opened the door. Inside was fire.

A weeklong state of emergency has been called in the Australian state of New South Wales as deadly wildfires continue to ravage communities, forcing thousands from their homes, NBC News reports.

San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) became a fire-safety pioneer when the energy company created Fire Safe 1.0. SDG&E described the system as ‘the most highly concentrated network of weather stations and high definition cameras in the country’. The goal is to use data to improve wildfire safety in the county. Now, the company is welcoming Fire Safe 3.0,...

Some environmentalists are asking Cal Fire to stop clearing wildland with prescribed burns, claiming the long-term effects can cause more damage than good.

NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado is with a fire captain and a biologist to understand both sides of the argument.

The Lupo family’s house burned down during the Woolsey fire in Malibu, Calif. This is the story of what they lost and how they’re moving forward.