Mendocino County News

While firefighters expect today to fully contain the Indians Fire in south Monterey County, they plan to continue burning fire lines behind Big Sur village to protect the storied tourist destination from the ...

The first wave of National Guard troops was sent Monday to help firefighters battle ongoing California blazes.

ELK, California : When he spotted a small fire two weeks ago atop a steep hill outside this blocklong town, Charlie Acker, 57, the president of the local school board and a volunteer firefighter, jumped inside ...

Still, some people defied orders to evacuate the Big Sur area and stayed behind to try to save their homes and businesses from the blaze, which has burned 260 square kilometres of the Los Padres National Forest ...

A fast-moving fire in Goleta, Calif., just north of Santa Barbara, has forced nearly 2,000 residents from their homes, as a shift in winds and the availability of timber fuel combined on Friday to trump fires ...

Cooler weather conditions Sunday were giving a boost to weary and exhausted firefighters battling wildfires that stretched from Big Sur to Santa Barbara, officials said.Wildfires have burned more than 800 ...

Mendocino County's volunteer firefighters have been working side by side with Cal Fire to help contain and extinguish more than 100 wildfires that have burned in the county for almost two weeks, and now they ...

"The firefighters are stretched thin, they are exhausted," and some have gone days without sleep, said Gov.

Theron Bradkey, a Cal Fire crew member from Sonoma County, takes a look at the 750-plus-year-old log, while another log smolders nearby.

Lis and Robert Billingsley - retirees, volunteers and proud American Legion members - said they had exactly one word to describe sales this holiday period at the fireworks stand they run here for the Legion.

A volunteer firefighter who collapsed while battling a fire and died Thursday at Ukiah Valley Medical Center apparently had a heart attack.

A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening more than 4,500 homes hundreds of miles apart.

Conditions on the fire lines continued to improve Wednesday as firefighters increased containment of the Mendocino Lightning Complex fires and evacuation warnings were lifted in two areas.

Gorse is an invasive, noxious, highly flammable non-native plant that thrives in coastal areas.

Two years ago, Sid Waterman gazed up with satisfaction at this town's first Independence Day fireworks.

Piles of charred rubble smoldered along California's scenic coastal highway Thursday as a ferocious wildfire descended on the storied tourist town of Big Sur, destroying vacation homes and sending forest creatures running toward the sea for cover.

The stubborn blaze, which has burned more than 100 square miles in the Los Padres National Forest, was just one of hundreds raging around the state. And officials on Thursday reported California's first firefighter death this year _ a volunteer who collapsed on the fire line in Mendocino County.

A volunteer firefighter has died after collapsing while battling a blaze in Mendocino County.

A CalFire air tanker drops retardant on a fire. Tankers have been grounded due to poor visibility after smoke socked in the Ukiah Regional Airport.

When lightning struck the county over a week ago, sparking dozens of fires, it became clear that extra help was needed.

Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman is the man responsible for carrying out evacuations in the county, if and when they are ordered and mandatory, and he says his evacuation teams are ready.