Wildfires

Helicopters can fly ground crews into remote areas to fight the wildfires, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little.

You’ve heard it a million times: clear vegetation around your home during wildfire season, but what if goats could do it for you? That’s what SDG&E is doing in one Clairemont Mesa neighborhood.

One neighborhood in Clairemont got the treatment from the four-legged fire-prevention team on Tuesday, reports NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez.

Firefighters contained a small brush fire Sunday in Ramona. According to Cal Fire San Diego, the Weekend Fire broke out Sunday morning at Highway 78 just east of Weekend Villa Road. It was reported at 3 acres with the potential to grow to 5 acres. The department later said the fire’s forward progress had been stopped. Crews would also be…

CAL FIRE crews are responding to the vegetation fire at Highway 78 just east of Weekend Villa Road in Ramona.

The fire broke out around 2:45 p.m. Thursday, in a canyon behind the 7500 block of Camino Minero near Denk Mountain.

The practice, known as home hardening, aims to block embers before they ignite.

Smoke from hundreds of active wildfires in Canada is pushing through the Midwest, Northeast and along the eastern seaboard down to Florida.

Cal Fire San Diego crews will be conducting drills this week that could produce smoke visible across San Diego and neighboring Imperial County, the agency said. The live fire training drills will be conducted Wednesday and Thursday on a 65-acre site near Boulevard in far east San Diego County. During the drill, firefighters will learn techniques they can use during…

Prom night for students affected by the Eaton Fire hit a snag when limos that were supposed to show up to pick them up, never arrived. 

A U.S. Navy veteran who lost his home to the Palisades Fire was honored in a special way on Monday.

NBC 7’s Jeanette Quezada reports on how quickly the fire spread, threatening homes.

Crews responded to a brush fire that burned at least four acres Saturday evening around 6 p.m., south of Poway Road and Lola Way. Evacuations were in place along Cobblestone Creek Road until about 7:45 p.m., according to the San Diego Fire Department. The cause of the fire is unknown and is under investigation. The fire threatened homes, with a…

An elementary school robotics team whose robots burned in the Palisades Fire in January made a remarkable comeback in matter of months. The team is competing this week in the Robotics World Championships in Dallas, about four months after the wildfire burned Marquez Elementary School and the team’s robots. The team was forced to start over after the fire, the...

NBC 7’s Brooke Martell has a look at the hands-on training to prepare for wildfire emergencies.

Climate-fueled wildfires contribute to thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in damages from wildfire smoke in the U.S, via a new study.

The U.S. Forest Service is evicting dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years so that it can start a wildfire prevention project.

Hundreds of burned guns have been found in the ashes of homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades.

Joseph Kling, 19, of Ocean Township, New Jersey, is charged with aggravated arson and arson in connection to the massive Jones Road wildfire.

An Altadena family that lost everything to the Eaton Fire discovered that precious keepsakes from their adult children’s childhoods managed to survive the devastating blaze.