A fire caused by a plane crash that destroyed 27 homes in Tehachapi, California, was 83% contained by early Thursday, according to state and local officials.
A fire caused by a plane crash threatened 800 homes or structures in Tehachapi, California, on Monday, with nearly 5,000 acres ablaze in rugged terrain, according to state and local officials.
Firefighters scrambled to control a southern California brush fire started by a small plane crash Sunday night, reported federal and local authorities, which ordered residents of one threatened canyon to evacuate.
Evacuation orders have been lifted for neighborhoods in the region of a massive wildfire in southern California that has destroyed at least one home, officials said Friday.
Firefighters in southern California have contained 65 percent of a massive wildfire that has burned more than 8,000 acres, officials said Thursday.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in Southern California's Kern County, scene of a wildfire that has burned more than 6,000 acres.
Crews battling a 3,000-acre wildfire in Southern California's Kern County on Monday were able to get 10 percent of the blaze contained, the fire department said.
Winds have calmed in Southern California, helping firefighters double containment of a wildfire in Kern County, authorities said.
Specially trained firefighters from Alaska are flown in to help battle wildfires in southern California. KBAK reports.
Mild weather helped firefighters in a mountainous area of southern California make some progress against a wildfire overnight, fire officials said.
In California, the Kern County Fire Department says a fire has burned more than 1,100 acres. CNN's Rick Sanchez reports.
A wildfire ripped through a mountain community in Southern California on Tuesday, burning more than 1,000 acres and forcing the evacuation of residents living near the flames, authorities said.
More favorable weather conditions over the weekend helped firefighters gain the upper hand in efforts to contain three fires that have been raging in Southern California.
More favorable weather conditions Saturday helped firefighters in their bid to contain the roaring Crown Fire, one of several in southern California.
With fire season under way, hundreds of firefighters -- backed up by more than a dozen aircraft -- are battling three wildfires in southern California.
A brush fire destroyed dozens of homes in a remote section of Southern California on Tuesday.
Hundreds of fire personnel appeared to be making progress against wildfires ripping across Kern County, California.
Kern County -- in southern California -- was under a state of emergency Wednesday as a result of two spreading wildfires that have destroyed more than 30 homes, caused more than 2,300 people to evacuate and burned more than 16,500 acres.
Two roaring wildfires in southern California prompted at least 2,300 evacuations and a state of emergency late Tuesday.
Four hundred firefighters were converging Friday on a wildfire caused by lightning about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, California, according to the Kern County Fire Department.
Photojournalist Tim Hart takes us to the funeral of military veterans who got a proper burial thanks to diligent citizens.
One California county clerk in the conservative Central Valley plans to sidestep the state's legalization of gay marriage by not performing any ceremonies
Stealing fuel
updated: Fri Jun 06 2008 07:11:00
Thieves are stealing thousands of gallons of fuel from California farmers. Chris Lawrence reports.
Standing in a field of organic tomatoes, farmer Pete Belluomini says the ground-cracking drought and unrelenting insects make it difficult enough to make a living on the land.
An explosion at an airport home to Scaled Composites -- the builder of the first private manned rocket to reach space -- killed two people and left four seriously hurt Thursday, a Kern County Fire Department official says.
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