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Some of the wildfires as seen from space during the height of the summer outbreak on July 9, 2008. The 2008 California wildfire season was one of the most devastating in the state of the 21st century. While 6,255 fires occurred, [ 1] about two-thirds as many as in 2007, the total area burned— 1,593,690 acres (6,449.4 square kilometres) [ 2 ...
9. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 was a scheduled flight on September 25, 1978, by Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA), from Sacramento to San Diego ( SAN ), with a stopover at Los Angeles ( LAX ). The aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 727-214 [ a] ( registration: #N533PS), collided mid-air with a private Cessna 172 ( light aircraft; # ...
The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department ( SDFD) is the full-service fire department of San Diego, California. [ 2] It was established on August 5, 1889. The department responds to over 183,000 calls per year. [ 2] It covers 343 square miles of service area, including 17 miles of coastline.
The Bunnie Fire near Ramona, California, is seen from the air on 9 August, 2023 (Cal Fire / San Diego County Fire) A fire on the outskirts of San Diego on Wednesday prompted evacuation orders and ...
The Park fire, California's biggest and most destructive of 2024, continues to rage in Northern California, having already burned 414,000 acres across four counties and destroyed hundreds of ...
The Cedar Fire was a massive, highly-destructive wildfire, which burned 273,246 acres (1,106 km 2) of land in San Diego County, California, during October and November 2003. [ 2][ 3] The fire's rapid growth was driven by the Santa Ana wind, causing the fire to spread at a rate of 3,600 acres (15 km 2) per hour. [ 2]
July 25, 2024 at 7:51 PM. A burning car pushed into a gully sparked California’s largest wildfire of the year, authorities said Thursday as they announced the arrest of a suspect. Meanwhile ...
The 2022 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires throughout the U.S. state of California. By the end of the year, a total of 7,667 fires had been recorded, totaling approximately 363,939 acres (147,281 hectares) across the state. Wildfires killed nine people in California in 2022, destroyed 772 structures, and damaged another 104.