SAN DIEGO — Multiple wildfires that have erupted across San Diego County in recent weeks are ... Johnson explained, "A wildland fire investigation sometimes is a long, lengthy process.

He also said that, after the Los Angeles fires, he is “expecting additional investments by the state to bolster wildland fire protection.” Fires are top of mind in San Diego County.

But the department is seriously behind, and private property wildland management code violations are not being enforced. The recent Montezuma Fire that ... news about San Diego County.

Judson Boomhower, assistant professor in the economics department of UC San Diego, on the wildland ... fire in California history, the Camp Fire, destroyed the town of Paradise in Butte County ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI ... conditions primed for potentially erratic fire behavior. According to the National Weather Service, most parts of the county received around 0.25 inches of rainfall ...

Judson Boomhower, assistant professor in the economics department of UC San Diego, on the wildland ... fire in California history, the Camp Fire, destroyed the town of Paradise in Butte County ...

After San Diego County’s Cedar ... way of simulating how fire actually progresses, especially deep into urban centers. It means the model could not simulate how a wildland fire could decimate ...

New blazes cropped up in San Diego County this week ... human development in fire-prone regions, especially in the wildland-urban interface, where neighborhoods mingle with forest and grasslands ...

The Hughes Fire ... south of San Diego near the Mexico border. The blaze, which started Thursday afternoon, was 43% contained on Monday after burning more than 6,600 acres of wildland.

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban ...