Firefighters contained a house fire just before 4:00 p.m. in La Quinta on Saturday. CAL FIRE confirmed the fire was first reported roughly two hours prior on the 81000 block of Kingston Heath, within the Greg Norman Course at PGA West.

A semi-truck caught fire on Highway 41 in Madera County, causing traffic to be diverted and southbound traffic to be shut down with no estimated reopening time.

Two people died in a car fire following a crash on Hickman Road in Stanislaus County. The cause remains under investigation.

Firefighters say the last original building of a historic lumber company in Auburn was destroyed in a fire. Crews from around the region – including Cal Fire, Auburn City Fire and Newcastle Fire – responded to the former Cal-Ida Lumber Mill near Highway 49 and Hulbert Way late Monday night.

CAL FIRE Butte Unit says they have dispatched five engines, a Battalion Chief, a Division Chief, and rescue technicians to the scene of the rescue. The CAL FIRE scanner called

Ten months after the fire, many Altadena families remain displaced because permitting, remediation and housing policies are not designed for urban fire disasters. Here’s a road map to address these failures.