State law allows fireworks firms to get state permission to import wholesale explosives without proving they have a safe place to keep them.

Residential outdoor burning permits will be suspended in Mendocino County beginning early Monday, the Mendocino Unit of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported. In a ...

Fire personnel from the Sacramento area are being deployed to Santa Barbara County to help with the response to a rapidly ...

California law allowed a pyrotechnics CEO with a felony to hold state licenses. Devastating Pyrotechnics lacked local permits and imported restricted chemicals. Federal-state regulatory gaps raise ...

This week Cal Fire announced that the agency is suspending burn permits in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. The suspension will go into effect at 6 a.m. on Monday. “With a recent increase in ...

Local News New CAL FIRE map tracks wildfires and burn severity across California CAL FIRE's new interactive tool displays detailed data on California's biggest wildfires from 2015 to 2023.