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RUSH: The fires are another raging issue out there. You know, I have never known, I have never known how fires are named. Dawn, have you known how fires are named? Scott, have you known how fires…? You probably know. It’s probably the kind of thing that you’ve known since you were five, right? I have never known how fires were named. Like, we’ve got the Woolsey Fire here, and we’ve got the Camp fire up in Northern California. I’ve never bothered to look into how they’re named. It’s really rather simple, and there’s nothing mysterious about it. They name...

President Trump has approved an emergency declaration because of wildfires in California. Its been a brutal week of wildfires affecting northern California with nine deaths in the town of Paradise, 6,700 structures were destroyed there in the town of 26,000 when the fire suddenly swept through causing confusion and traffic jams in the midst of the raging inferno. 35 PEOPLE ARE REPORTED MISSING THERE..... Yesterday, a new fire spread rapidly in southern California..... President Trump tweeted about the situation at around 3am this morning: "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that...

Sprinklers ran on rooftops while the Camp Fire blazed only a half mile away from some Ridge residents who packed their vehicles preparing to leave at a moment's notice. Rex Boylan lives on Lunar Lane on the east side of Pentz Road. His home was one of the first to be put under immediate threat evacuation notice. "I'm packed and it's just one of those things we'll wait and see," he said. "We'll leave when we have to or when we're told to." Immediate threat is the strongest word firefighters can say, CAL FIRE public information officers say. And in...

<p>CABAZON, Calif. — Investigators swooped down Monday on a home only one-quarter mile from where a deadly arson wildfire was started last week and took the two residents into custody for questioning.</p> <p>The investigators, including the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, the Cabazon Fire Department’) and the California Department of Forestry, entered the house around 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT).</p>

Haines Index Map - Higher Haines means fire growth tends to be stronger: Fuel Dryness:  Tells you how likely things are to burn if a fire gets started: INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2006 – 0800 MDT NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL 3 CURRENT SITUATION: Initial attack activity was moderate nationally with 201 new fires reported.  Nine new large fires (*) were reported, three in the Northern Rockies Area, two in the Rocky Mountain Area and one each in the Southern California, Eastern Great Basin, Western Great Basin and Southern Areas. Four large fires were contained, two in the...

Haines Index Map - Higher Haines means fire growth tends to be stronger: Fuel Dryness:  Tells you how likely things are to burn if a fire gets started: INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2006 – 0530 MDT NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL 3 CURRENT SITUATION: Initial attack activity was light nationally with 167 new fires reported.  Ten new large fires (*) were reported, four in the Northern Rockies Area, two in the Southern Area and one each in the Southwest, Eastern Great Basin, Eastern, and the Rocky Mountain Areas. Seven large fires were contained, two each in the Northwest...

Haines Index Map - Higher Haines means fire growth tends to be stronger: Fuel Dryness:  Tells you how likely things are to burn if a fire gets started: INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2006 – 0530 MDT NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL 3 CURRENT SITUATION: Initial attack activity was light nationally with 167 new fires reported.  Nine new large fires (*) were reported, three in the Eastern Great Basin Area, two each in the Northern Rockies and Western Great Basin Areas and one each in the Northern California and Northwest Areas.  Six large fires were contained, two in the...

SAN DIEGO - A 19-year-old firefighter with the California Conservation Corps has been charged with starting five fires that destroyed two homes and prompted 200 people to evacuate their neighborhoods. Jonathan Patrick Klausen, a firefighter specialist with the corps, which enlists young people to fight fires and perform other environmental work, was arrested Tuesday night on five counts of arson.He was being held Wednesday on $250,000 bond. The fires were set early Tuesday near Julian, a town about 40 miles northeast of San Diego that had fought off a 62,000-acre wildfire less than a month ago. The largest arson-caused...