Chaparral, Calif.’s fire-adapted ecosystem, often goes overlooked. That is, except for when the high severity firestorms blaze through human communities. Chaparral was quickly lambasted during ...
a fire ecologist with the California Chaparral Institute in Escondido on Jan. 23. Ecosystems are used to this seesaw effect, he said and fire is part of the Mediterranean climate of Southern ...
The blaze, which firefighters dubbed the Fig Fire as it burned near the intersection of Fig Street and Hoover Avenue off the ...
A fire extended from a burning Murrieta home amid gusting winds Thursday. Evacuations were ordered, and warnings were issued ...
In Los Angeles’s chaparral ... of fire suppression fuel larger wildfires, experts say. Researchers studying the effects of climate change have found that fire severity increased in California ...
KPBS reporter John Carroll explains how one iconic area is now safer from fire than it was before. Some San Diego firefighters spent Friday morning spraying down chaparral in the San Carlos ...
It’s January, well past the time of year when fire season in Southern California is supposed to end. But in this part of the semi-arid chaparral called Los Angeles, fire season can now be any time.
Nearly a week earlier, the Palisades Fire tore through the canyon neighborhood, leveling homes, melting vehicles and chewing through hills thick with chaparral. Resident E.V. and his wife stayed ...
The forecast called for an all-out windstorm by midday over chaparral that hadn ... to see more than a sporadic number of fire engines. A Southern California native, Hurwitz moved back from ...
Fire experts, past reports and ... according to the California Wildfire & Forest Resilience Task Force. Chaparral ecosystems are known for intense, wind-whipped fires, said Robert Gray, a Canadian ...