A California judge has ruled the state’s bare-bones home insurance program’s handling of smoke damage claims is unlawful, a ...

On June 27, 1990 the Painted Cave claimed two lives and burned 5,000 acres in Santa Barbara County. On this Wednesday evening ...

A Santa Rosa firefighter was hospitalized with minor injuries and two families were displaced when a fire broke out in the 1600 block of Ridley Avenue Saturday afternoon. It was one of two structur… ...

O n the night of October 8, 2017, a small fire ignited near the northern tip of Napa Valley. Hot, dry winds gusting up to 80 miles an hour drove the blaze southwest toward the city of Santa Rosa ...

The fire destroyed about 5,000 homes in Santa Rosa and the surrounding area in October 2017, with about 1,500 of those in Coffey Park, making it California's costliest wildfire disaster at the time.

As of this week, the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades area has burned 23,448 acres, destroyed 6,770 structures, damaged 904 others, and caused 11 deaths.About 40 miles to the northeast, the ...

Survivors of the 2017 Tubbs fire in Santa Rosa have a message for L.A. fire victims: You can’t imagine it now, but it is possible to recover.

“It’s really putting a strain on all of California at this point,” said Matt Plotkin, who helped lead recovery efforts for the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County as head of what is now the Camp ...

Karen Chapple, a professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, studied three recent California fires — the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa (2017), the Thomas Fire ...

After the Tubbs Fires, the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa (the organization Holmes runs) created a disaster case management team with up to 20 case managers, and wrote a disaster ...