Wildfire smoke to affect air quality in Bay Area
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A new wildfire was reported today at 4:57 p.m. in Fresno County, California. CA-FKU-ISLAND Fire has been burning on private land. Currently, there is no data on the containment status of the fire and the cause has yet to be determined.
A haze visible in parts of the Sacramento Valley on Thursday is from multiple fires in Northern California. The Woodland Fire Department said it received several calls on Thursday about smoke in the air and reassured in a Facebook post that the haze is not from any local fires, but rather it's from fires burning up north.
San Diego firefighters have fully contained the 50-acre Springs Fire, which broke out in rural East County on Thursday, and all evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted.
A new wildfire was reported today at 7:07 p.m. in Del Norte County, California. Macbeth Fire has burned 0.3 acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. At this time, the containment status is unknown and the cause of the fire remains undetermined.
The Eaton and Palisades fires in January caused an unprecedented level of destruction, killing at least 30 people, destroying more than 16,000 homes in L.A. County and leaving a burn zone 2½ times the size of New York’s Manhattan. Two weeks into peak fire season, wildfires are spreading in California. Officials say it’s just the beginning.
Laguna Beach police said they identified the suspect as a 13-year-old boy, who was arrested on suspicion of felony reckless burning of forest land.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of setting off fireworks that sparked a wildfire this week in coastal Southern California, forcing the evacuations of about a hundred canyon homes.
The Rancho fire, which burned nearly five acres in Laguna Beach, prompted evacuations and caused power outages.
The fire has prompted evacuation orders, warnings and highway closures in San Luis Obispo County about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
California frequently suffers some of the costliest disasters in the country. Now state officials fear they’ll be left to face them without federal funding.