The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) is the state's primary wildland firefighting agency, protecting over 31 million acres of California's privately owned wildlands.

A couple whose home was damaged in the Palisades fire filed a lawsuit Monday against the California FAIR Plan, the state's ...

City councilmembers in Berkeley, California, are considering law to ban most plants within five feet of houses in wildfire-prone neighborhoods.

For years, wildfire-resilient home and neighborhood design has been a niche consideration for many California homeowners.

At least two California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection helicopters flew over the area dropping water over the fire. Alert California outdoor cameras pointed in the area of the fire ...

At a news conference with Gov. Gavin Newsom in Sacramento, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the state’s primary firefighting agency, rolled out a new C-130 Hercules ...

LOS ANGELES — The family of a helicopter pilot who died when his helicopter crashed in 2020 while fighting a wildfire in Southern California reached a $15 million settlement with the company ...

LOS ANGELES — The family of a helicopter pilot who died when his helicopter crashed in 2020 while fighting a wildfire in Southern California reached a $15 million settlement with the company ...

which investigators with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection believe to be arson. Cecile Juliette, CAL FIRE public information officer, said the agency could not currently ...

Berkeley is following California’s long desire to remove home vegetation and create "zone-zero rules," beginning with a 2020 law ordering the state's Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to ...

Fournier worked for a private Southern California company that contracts with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, and other agencies to provide firefighting ...