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July 27, 2024 at 3:00 PM. Wildfires break out across California: Latest fire and smoke maps. Wildfires are exploding across the West, especially in California, where the Park Fire has now grown to ...
Oak Fire (2022) / 37.5509366; -119.9234728. The Oak Fire was a destructive wildfire that burned north of the community of Bootjack in Mariposa County, California and in the Sierra National Forest, during the 2022 California wildfire season. [2] The fire was reported on July 22, 2022, and burned 19,244 acres (7,788 ha) before being fully ...
Deaths. 1. Damage. $12 million. Map. Location in Southern California. The Canyon Fire was a wildfire that burned on Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California during September 2016. By the time the fire was contained on September 24, it had burned 12,742 acres (51.6 km 2) of land. [1] Due to the nature of the activities ...
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history. [3] On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point (also known as Point Pedernales; the cliffs just off-shore called Devil's Jaw), a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the Gaviota ...
Bryant-Jon Anteola. July 23, 2022 at 9:26 PM. The Oak Fire has been burning since Friday afternoon in the mountainous terrain of Mariposa County, about 14 miles from Yosemite National Park’s ...
The number of fires is only slightly higher than this time last year, but state data show that the acreage burned is more than 20 times greater. By this point in 2023, just over 3,000 blazes had ...
The Lompoc Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency for the city. The city is also served by the Lompoc Fire Department (LFD), which responds to more than 3,800 emergency and non-emergency calls per year. [35] American Medical Response Santa Barbara County (AMR SBC) provides the primary emergency medical response and ambulance ...
The state’s largest fire, the Basin Fire burning in Fresno County, has blackened 14,027 acres of the Sierra National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service said in an update Friday. The fire, which has ...