The Dixie fire, burning in Plumas and Butte counties, swelled beyond 140,000 acres Friday, while some began questioning management strategies on the 58,000-acre Tamarack fire along the California-Nevada state line.
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Dixie fire burns more than 100,000 acres while Tamarack fire crosses state lines
The Dixie fire, burning in Butte and Plumas counties, is now the second fire in California to surpass 100,000 acres this year, after the Sugar fire. That came as the Tamarack fire swelled across the California-Nevada state line for the first time.
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UCSC researchers helping California’s black abalone, increasingly threatened by wildfire
In Big Sur, scientists from UC Santa Cruz and elsewhere are rescuing the abalone from landslides caused by the Dolan Fire and moving them to safety in new neighborhoods where “resident abalone” already thrive.
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Two fast-moving California fires are creating their own dangerous weather systems
The Dixie and Tamarack fires have chewed through nearly 100,000 acres with little containment, officials said Tuesday. That update came after Monday saw the Dixie fire, burning in Butte and Plumas counties, generate its own pyrocumulonimbus cloud, which created its own lightning — something the Tamarack fire, on the California-Nevada border, also did Tuesday.
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PG&E equipment may have sparked Dixie fire, growing near burn scar of deadly Camp fire
At inception the Soquel Creek Water District focused on flood control. Today, the District now ensures 41,000 Santa Cruz…
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With drought worsening, should California have much tougher water restrictions?
Experts support the pace of Newsom’s current drought response, but some scientists urge more action.
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California fires are burning faster, hotter, more intensely — and getting harder to fight
The dryness of the vegetation, primed by both long-term drought and shorter-term heat waves, is making it easy for fires to ignite and even easier for them to spread.
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California hit by record-breaking fire destruction: ‘Climate change is real, it’s bad’
Already this year, there have been more than twice as many acres burned than during the same period last year — and hundreds more fires.
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He had 10 minutes to flee the Salt fire. Now his home is gone
Authorities announced Saturday that the Salt fire had destroyed at least 27 homes and 14 outbuildings.
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When are we going to outgrow fireworks?
As we head into the first Fourth of July celebration since the traumatic CZU fires ravaged Santa Cruz County, resentment against illegal fireworks is at all-time high. Can we celebrate the nation’s birthday without “bombs bursting in air”?