Napa County has a lot more ... said Daniel Berlant of Cal Fire in a news release. Cal Fire fire scientists and wildfire mitigation experts developed the map after looking at such factors as ...

Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some experts say may have helped mitigate the damage from Los Angeles' devastating ...

Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles wildfires. Some were sent to too many people, some to too few.

The atmospheric river storm hitting Northern California brought heavy rain, flooding and mudslides to the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday. In the mountains, the National Weather Service has issued ...

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

Nearly a month since blazes ignited across Los Angeles County, the channels of communications have been established between ...

Vasya Tremsin, a (then) high school senior from the San Francisco Bay Area, came up with a crazy idea for a science fair project, “a technology that can detect fires early,” he tells ...

For a time, California's insurance system was maybe workable. Big, destructive fires used to be rarer, so the insurance ...

“All data flows to the platform in which people can view the map with any wildfires ... who’s helping develop fire-retardant tools, says that the technology used today “has not advanced ...

Funded in 2021, the Watch Duty wildfire alert application has grown from covering three California counties to covering 1,400 ...