Cal Fire will examine the Ventura County Fire Department's response to a small wildfire that subsequently rekindled from the charred skeleton of a tractor — eventually growing into the destructive ...

Cal Fire Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit’s new company officers spent the past two weeks training at Standard Fire Station to take on leadership positions across the unit. The new company officers studied ...

CAL FIRE is adopting NERIS to improve fire incident data collection and analysis across its large number of fire stations. The transition from NFIRS to NERIS reduces data fields, focusing on more ...

3:38 p.m. Nov. 25, 2025: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the Cal Fire program in dispute. It is the California Vegetation Treatment Program, not the Vegetation Management ...

AUBURN, Calif. – Fire Chief Brian Estes of the Nevada Yuba Placer Unit and Placer County Fire Department will retire at the end of 2025, concluding a distinguished 35-year career with CAL FIRE. Chief ...