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The Caldor Fire was a large wildfire that burned 221,835 acres (89,773 hectares) in the Eldorado National Forest and other areas of the Sierra Nevada in El Dorado, Amador, and Alpine County, California, in the United States during the 2021 California wildfire season. [ 2] The fire was first reported on Saturday, August 14, 2021, and was fully ...
Fred. Wilbert. The Trout Creek Outrage, also known as the Truckee Outrage or Trout Creek Murder, was an example of anti-Chinese violence in California which occurred on the night of June 17–18, 1876. White residents of Truckee, California set fire to two cabins along Trout Creek that housed six Chinese immigrants working as woodcutters ...
Mosquito Fire A pyrocumulonimbus cloud rises from the Mosquito Fire on September 8, 2022 Date(s) September 6 (6-09) – October 22, 2022 (2022-10-22) (47 days) Location Placer County and El Dorado County, Northern California, United States Coordinates Statistics Burned area 76,788 acres (31,075 ha; 120 sq mi; 311 km 2) Impacts Deaths 0 Non-fatal injuries ≥2 Evacuated ≥11,260 Structures ...
Semi-truck catches fire, shuts down California interstate for 16 hours. Julia Gomez, USA TODAY. August 20, 2024 at 8:30 AM. A big rig caught fire Monday morning and shut down Interstate 80 in ...
Park Fire burns ‘more than 3 times the surface area of Lake Tahoe’ in less than a week. Camila Pedrosa. July 30, 2024 at 1:31 PM. José Luis Villegas/jvillegas@sacbee.com. Tuesday marks the ...
A crash and large fire along a California freeway involving an electric Tesla Semi has drawn the attention of federal safety investigators. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said ...
List of California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires.
July 28, 2024 at 4:30 PM. Amid the stories of destruction from the Park Fire north of Sacramento, California, some good news came over the weekend: A rescue crew saved a Rottweiler and four ...