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  • Forest Service Planes Under Scrutiny

    The aging airplanes that the Forest Service uses to fight wildfires have been under scrutiny before. But none of the audits or the probes or the memos had the impact of a video showing an air tanker's wings snapping off in flight.

    News • October 7th, 2002

  • Severe Fire, Drought Shut Down CA Wilderness

    Federal authorities today will announce plans to close vast stretches of the San Bernardino National Forest, the second time in a week that severe fire and drought conditions have forced officials to shut down public wilderness in Southern California.

    News • October 3rd, 2002

  • Wildfire Chars 1,500 Acres South of Davis, CA

    Firefighters spent much of Wednesday roping in a wildfire that blackened 1,500 acres near Davis.

    News • October 3rd, 2002

  • Fire Crews Appreciated for Protecting Homes Along Angeles National Forest

    Firefighters battling the Angeles National Forest wildfire never had it so good. Residents set up cots and chairs, baked and cooked for them.

    News • October 3rd, 2002

  • Curbing Forest Fires

    A not-so-natural disaster befell many Western states this summer - massive forest fires - but that fact hasn't sparked the Senate to find a compromise among several different measures aimed at curbing future fires in national forests.

    News • October 2nd, 2002

  • Gusty Davis, CA Winds Fan Valley Flames
    Gusty Davis, CA Winds Fan Valley Flames

    Gusty winds fueled more fires Wednesday, including one that damaged two homes in Sacramento.

    News • October 2nd, 2002

  • California Fire Forces Evacuations

    Wind-driven flames from a fast-moving brush fire forced the evacuation of campers in southern Sacramento County Tuesday night.

    News • October 2nd, 2002

  • Crews Try to Contain California Wildfire

    The blaze, one of two major California wildfires, was posing its greatest threat to Mount Baldy Village.

    News • September 27th, 2002

  • California Fire Forces School Cancellations

    The wildfire in the Angeles National Forest has forced cancellation of sporting events, venue changes and campus closures at a number of schools in the San Bernardino, Pomona/Walnut and San Gabriel valleys.

    News • September 27th, 2002

  • Hundreds Evacuated as Fire Spreads Across Santa Cruz, CA Mountains

    Hundreds of people fled rural homes, ranches and vineyards in the hills west of Gilroy on Wednesday as the Croy fire continued a relentless, destructive march across the rolling countryside and rugged eastern slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

    News • September 26th, 2002

  • California Wildfire Threatens Homes

    Flames from a 30,000-acre wildfire crawled to within miles of 700 hillside homes across the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and threatened rustic cabins in the Angeles National Forest.

    News • September 26th, 2002

  • Investigations Focus on Firefighting Airplane Crashes in California and Colorado

    The National Transportation Safety Board today released the following updated information on its investigations of two United States Department of Agriculture Forestry Service firefighting airplane crashes: Lockheed C130A at Walker, California on June...

    News • September 25th, 2002

  • Santa Cruz Mountain Fire Burns 15 Homes, Barns

    wildfire raced through the Santa Cruz Mountains above Morgan Hill on Tuesday, destroying 15 homes, barns and trailers as firefighters scrambled into the wee hours today to protect dozens of other houses. The 1,200-acre fire started Monday and grew...

    News • September 25th, 2002

  • Firefighters Continue to Battle Santa Cruz, California Fire

    Santa Clara County's largest wildfire in 17 years burns on, with firefighters struggling to control a blaze that has swept over more than 1,200 acres of the rugged, brush-and-timber covered eastern slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

    News • September 25th, 2002

  • California Firefighters Battle Major Wildfires

    A wildfire that has destroyed dozens of cabins and forced the closure of 650,000-acres in Angeles National Forest prompted mandatory evacuations as smoke spread across communities northeast of Los Angeles.

    News • September 25th, 2002

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