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Seated behind the wheel of a fire engine, Dave Breglia follows a map dotted with expensive homes threatened by wildfires. His job: protect high-end real estate and save an insurance company millions of dollars. Sweat rolled down Lisa Mirander's forehead as she hacked a tangle of saplings and brush down to bare dirt to prevent a wildfire from spreading. It was a tough job, but no harder than the 13 months she served in Afghanistan.
Utility faces heat over 2007 California fires
Attorneys suing San Diego Gas & Electric Co. said Thursday their case alleging the utility failed to maintain equipment will be bolstered by a state report concluding an arcing power line caused the largest of last year's wildfires in Southern California.
Calif. wildfire makes overnight push in Concow
Firefighters dug in and took a stand early Thursday, battling to keep flames from claiming more homes in California's Sierra Nevada foothills.
Report: Faults detected on power lines before fire
A power line "faulted" more than three hours before sparking the largest of Southern California's devastating wildfires last fall, state investigators reported Wednesday. Tracey Johnson wields a chain saw, tosses branches and rakes brush under the punishing sun and a heavy pack as smoke from a raging wildfire looms over the mountains nearby.
Wind-stoked Butte County blaze destroys 40 homes
Authorities say a wind-stoked wildfire northeast of Sacramento in Butte County has destroyed 40 homes and is threatening thousands more.
Destructive Santa Cruz Mountains fire human-caused
Fire officials say a person started the fire that began in the Santa Cruz Mountains last month and destroyed 11 buildings. In less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California - a rare example of "dry lightning" that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands. |
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