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The 2015 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the state of California.By the end of 2015 a total of 8,745 fires were recorded, burning 893,362 acres (3,615 km 2) across the state. [1]
The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California's Butte County was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history. The fire began on the morning of Thursday, November 8, 2018, when part of a poorly maintained Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong katabatic winds.
The 2018 wildfire season was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire season in California history.It was also the largest on record at the time, now third after the 2020 and 2021 California wildfire seasons.
The Bobcat Fire was a large wildfire in Los Angeles County and one of the major incidents of the 2020 California wildfire season.The fire ignited on September 6, 2020, and burned 115,997 acres (46,942 ha) before it was fully contained by November 27.
El Camino Viejo a Los Ángeles (English: the Old Road to Los Angeles), also known as El Camino Viejo and the Old Los Angeles Trail, was the oldest north-south trail in the interior of Spanish colonial Las Californias (1769–1822) and Mexican Alta California (1822–1848), present day California.
The 2004 California wildfires were a series of wildfires that were active in the state of California during the year 2004. In total, 7,898 fires [ 1 ] burned 311,024 acres (1,258.67 square kilometres).
The Chilean government has reported at least 24 fatalities from the February wildfire outbreak, [1] at least 11 of them in the town of Santa Juana in Biobío. Two of the other fatalities occurred when an emergency services helicopter crashed on 3 February, killing its pilot and a mechanic, and a third occurred when a firefighter was struck by a truck while working an incident.
[12] [13] Witnesses claim Stout joined the crowd fleeing the growing fire. [13] California Highway Patrol investigators examined the car later and found it in neutral. [14] Stout was arrested at 1:30 a.m. the next day, ten and a half hours after the fire's ignition. [13] The Park Fire is the largest arson-caused wildfire in California history. [15]