First discovered: 1:56 p.m. Aug. 4 Initial location: Mendocino County, Calif. A new wildfire was reported today at 1:56 p.m.

Medicine Fire initially started 3:25 p.m. July 27 in Mendocino County, California. It has burned 262.8 acres after being ...

Cal Fire and the Mendocino community are grieving the loss of Firefighter I Christion Schoenfeld, who they said tragically ...

California just completed its Firehawk helicopter fleet — faster, stronger aircraft with high-flying capability. Cal Fire and ...

Meanwhile, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has remained the vacation leave payout leader for the ...

CAL FIRE announced today that it has added two new helicopters to enhance its rapid response firefighting capabilities. The ...

Waves were reported along a wide swath of the Northern California coast, including in San Francisco. The rest of the state ...

MENDOCINO CO., 7/29/25 – A wildfire burning northwest of Covelo is now 50% contained as of Tuesday evening, Cal Fire said.

A tsunami advisory was issued for the entire California coast following an 8.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia ...

Three firefighters have also sustained injuries, Cal Fire said. The extend of those injuries has not been reported. The fire, which authorities have called the “Medicine Fire,” was first reported ...

Tsunami alerts blanketed the West Coast and Alaska after one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history.

As of Monday at 6:36 p.m., Cal Fire reports that the Medicine Fire in Covelo was 263 acres in size and 45 percent contained, and that “fire resources continue to extinguish hotspots and strengthen ...