June 2009

Bakersfield, CA — A couple brush fires burned into one fire Saturday evening prompting a first-alarm wild land response. Kern County firefighters along with crews from the Bureau of Land Management contained the fire at just over 60 acres. Fires were reported just before 5 p.m. at the golf course by Lake Ming and on [...]

STOCKTON – A three-alarm fire caused a structural collapse of a supermarket on Lincoln and Harding Way in central Stockton. Firefighters battled a blaze at the Hi & Bye Supermarket that spread to nearby businesses. At least one fire safety wall collapsed between the supermarket and another business. “The store is a total loss,” Stockton [...]

In a tender and reverent ceremony staged next to a gleaming red fire engine, more than 100 Murrieta fire officials and their families witnessed the renaming of the city’s Juniper Street fire station to the Captain Matt Moore Memorial Fire Station. During the Friday morning ceremony, fire Chief Paul Christman spoke of a man whose [...]

Aspiring firefighters training in Ione will now have a chance to appreciate the legacy of the men who came before them thanks to a new museum recently constructed at the California Department of Forestry Academy on Highway 104. The movement to preserve CAL FIRE’s history started at the agency’s Bernardino Unit Headquarters facility in spring [...]