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Almost six years after a wildfire destroyed nearly 1,000 homes in Southern California, prosecutors say they have enough evidence to charge a prison inmate with arson and murder in connection with the 2003 blaze.
A homeless man was arrested and charged with arson for starting a tiny blaze in August near the spot where a gigantic wildfire erupted several days later, killing two firefighters, homicide detectives said Monday.
California fire officials say a summer blaze that destroyed 63 homes in the Sierra foothills was intentionally set.
In stories sent Oct. 7-9 about a wildfire in the Wrightwood area, The Associated Press incorrectly reported the mountain range affected by the blaze. The fire burned in the San Gabriel Mountains, not the San Bernardino Mountains.
Officials are asking residents to leave their homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where summer wildfires have made conditions ripe for mudslides.
A powerful fall storm packing strong winds and rain eased Wednesday without causing the widespread mudslides and debris flows that California residents had feared.
The first significant rain of the season is heading toward wildfire-scarred California.
Firefighters are taking advantage of cool fall weather as they increase containment of a blaze near the mountain community of Wrightwood.
Some residents of the scenic northern Arizona city of Williams spent Saturday away from their homes as a prescribed burn that grew out of control threatened the town known as the "Gateway to the Grand Canyon."
Authorities say charges have been filed against a 16-year-old boy suspected in more than a dozen Southern California arson wildfires, but details were not being made public.
All but the most remote sections of a pair of major Southern California wildfires were contained Saturday, but officials warned that dangerous fire weather would persist through the weekend.
Months before a wildfire burned 280 square miles at the edge of Los Angeles, a little-known group was awarded a $178,000 grant to clear flammable brush and tree limbs to protect a mountain neighborhood in the Angeles National Forest.
The wildfire that has ravaged a national forest near Los Angeles has burned one plant species that authorities were happy to see go: marijuana, lots of it.
The copilot of a helicopter ferrying firefighters implored "Fly darlin', fly darlin', fly darlin', fly darlin ...'" as the chopper lost power and fell out of the air in a rugged area of Northern California last year, according to a cockpit voice recording transcript released Wednesday. Nine of 13 people aboard were killed.
Investigators trying to solve a giant arson wildfire outside Los Angeles have bolstered their ranks in recent days, putting six more homicide detectives on the case as they review dozens of tips from the public about who set the blaze that has ravaged a 250-square-mile stretch of national forest.
Regulators on Thursday soundly rejected a utility company's plan to cut electricity to a vast swath of San Diego bedroom communities when the weather is ripe for major wildfires.
Firefighters are racing against the weather to clear brush before heat descends on Southern California, stoking the giant 15-day-old wildfire burning in the Angeles National Forest.
Southern California's huge wildfire has turned nearly a quarter of the 1,000-square-mile Angeles National Forest into a moonscape of barren mountains looming above thousands of homes that now face the threat of flash floods and mudslides.
As he reached the door of the chow hall, Henry Navarro looked to his right and uttered an expletive. Then he looked to his left and spat out an even stronger one.
After five grueling days in bush planes and on horseback, 74-year-old Lew Johnson was returning from the forests of British Columbia with his prize — a cooler full of meat from a 43 1/2-inch spread moose in the bed of his pickup.
Los Angeles County has approved a $50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the arsonist who set a massive fire that killed two firefighters. The state has already offered $100,000.
"Good morning!" Capt. Chip Paulson shouts from the canvas deck chair beside his fire engine. Never mind that it's just shy of 4 p.m.
Investigators trying to solve a giant arson wildfire outside Los Angeles have bolstered their ranks in recent days, putting six more homicide detectives on the case as they review dozens of tips from the public about who set the blaze that has ravaged a 250-square-mile stretch of national forest.
UCLA plans to play its scheduled game against San Diego State at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday despite the giant wildfire burning to the north in the Angeles National Forest.
A lawmaker is criticizing television and radio stations for failing to provide early round-the-clock coverage of the largest fire in Los Angeles County history.
Wildfires in Southern California - The Big Picture - Boston.comAmazing pictures from the fires in California.
Process mixes economics, wildfire preventionPortable plants that convert woody waste into fuel could help clear fuels for destructive wildfires.
California wildfire investigators blame arson, not global warmingCalifornia authorities believe the wildfires ravaging southern California may have been caused by arson, not global warming. In other words, it looks to be what Janet Napolitano calls a "man-made disaster."
Huge Wildfire Near Los Angeles Shows Little Sign of Slowing DownA terrible wildfire currently burning in the Los Angeles, California area is discussed in this September 1, 2009 article on the Los Angeles Times's website.
Blazes, lack of breeze choke Southern CaliforniaFirefighters in Southern California braced for another day of hot, extremely dry weather as they battled two wildfires in the Angeles National Forest northeast of Los Angeles.
Firefighters surround three California wildfiresFirefighters have surrounded three wildfires that have been burning throughout California for weeks.
Bush fire survivor Sam the Koala dies after surgery - CNN.comBush fire survivor Sam the Koala dies after surgery The raging wildfires that killed hundreds of Australians earlier this year could not kill Sam the Koala. But an illness endemic in the country's koala population did.
B.C. wildfires force 15,000 to fleeThe B.C. Forest Service has sent more firefighters and aircraft to the tinder-dry Okanagan region to battle wildfires that have forced as many as 15,000 people from their homes.
Fire Is an Important Part of Global Climate Change Fire must be accounted for as an integral part of climate change, according to 22 authors of an article published in the April 24 issue of the journal Science.
Brides-to-be fret over wildfire in Santa BarbaraCarrie Beers has been planning to hold her intimate wedding at a Spanish-style villa tucked into a Santa Barbara canyon. Now, the New Yorker is worried her West Coast wedding site won't survive a raging, 8,600-acre blaze.
Brides-to-be fret over wildfire in Santa BarbaraCarrie Beers has been planning to hold her intimate wedding at a Spanish-style villa tucked into a Santa Barbara canyon. Now, the New Yorker is worried her West Coast wedding site won't survive a raging, 8,600-acre blaze.
1,200 homes ordered evacuated amid Calif. wildfireAuthorities in Southern California have ordered about 1,200 homes to evacuate because of a wind-driven wildfire burning in Santa Barbara County. Fire Capt.
Strong wind hampers crews battling Texas firesStrong wind on Sunday hampered fire crews' efforts to control several Texas wildfires that had destroyed eight homes and damaged more than 20 smaller structures.
Cops lead town to safety in nick of time - Heroism in HellfiresFour senior constables, hailed as heroes after saving about 200 Marysville residents from the ferocious Black Saturday bushfires, have returned to the decimated community to speak about their terrifying ordeal.................
Accused firebug "Rejected by Girlfriend"The identity of a man charged over a fatal bushfire in Victoria's southeast has been revealed as his lawyer told a court the case had aroused an unprecedented amount of anger, emotion and disgust.
PINK boosts Victorian Bushfire AppealUS pop star P!nk has been so affected by the horrific images of the Victorian bushfires that she will donate a quarter of a million dollars to help the victims. The Grammy-winning singer, who regularly visits Australia, said she had been shocked by news of the fatal fires.
Tackling the Australian BushfiresJames Coote is a changed man. With his mates in Victoria's Country Fire Authority, the former Aucklander fought the big fire on Saturday and survived................."It reached 900 degrees in places.
Wildlife Victoria - Fires threaten the stateThe current fire situation has left its devestation on our wildlife including the loss of at least two wildlife shelters to the fires.
Kinglake carnage horrific: RFS VolunteerBruce Angus had seen devastation during his 20 years as a firefighter, but never on the horrific scale he witnessed in Marysville.
Four-legged fire victims rescuedA peacock, duck, turtle and a koala joey are among the patients one volunteer vet has treated this week amid Victoria's bushfire-ravaged regions where a million animals are thought to have perished.
Tributes to legendary actor taken by fireVeteran Aussie actor Reg Evans, feared dead in last weekend's bushfires in Victoria, has been described as a "good fun, cheeky old fellow" who did so much for aspiring young actors.
Australia fears more than 200 dead in wildfiresAustralian police combed through a blackened landscape searching for clues in the hunt for possible arsonists as the death toll from the nation's worst wildfires looked likely to top 200.
Death toll in Australian wildfires rises past 170 - Yahoo! NewsThis is so awful. Our wildfires in the US are nothing compared to these.
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