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Firefighters battle blaze at Highland City meat plant

July 27, 2010

HIGHLAND – Fifty firefighters battled a third-alarm fire at a meat-packing plant early Monday, a blaze that caused an estimated $1 million damage to the building. The fire at Far West Meats at 7759 Victoria Ave. was reported at 6:56 a.m. Firefighters arrived and saw no smoke or flames until they checked out the attic. [...]

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Cal Fire evades massive damage from budget cuts

July 14, 2009

State firefighting costs have nearly tripled in the past decade but Cal Fire has avoided taking major hits in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget. The state’s firefighting agency has $790 million budgeted. A one-time savings of $17 million for the delayed replacement of fire engines and other vehicles is the only cut currently being considered [...]

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Blaze consumes house, 48 acres in Palermo

June 29, 2009

PALERMO — Flames sparked by a lawnmower, fueled by Monday’s triple-digit temperatures and strong south winds, destroyed a home and scorched almost 50 acres in the Palermo area. It was the fourth consecutive Monday that a mower has triggered a fire. It was the largest of four fires that firefighters were called to Monday in [...]

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Butte County Firefighters Respond to Golf Cart Business Blaze

November 5, 2008

OROVILLE — A local golf cart maintenance business was destroyed by flames Tuesday evening, though firefighters were able to save a residence located nearby.At about 5:20 p.m., a fire was reported at the maintenance shop of Northern Golf Carts at 4688 Foothill Blvd. The shop is adjacent to the business owner’s home and stood about [...]

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Cal Fire Firefighters Pull Woman From Burning Home

November 3, 2008

GRIDLEY — Cal Fire-Gridley firefighters pulled a barely conscious woman from a burning house in Gridley Wednesday morning. The fire started about 11:40 a.m. at 1855 Indiana St., said Joshpae White, of Cal Fire-Butte County. View Larger Map Cal Fire crews were checking fire hydrants in the area when they saw smoke coming from the [...]

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Cal Fire/Merced County Fire Department Fight Livinston House Fire

October 28, 2008

Firefighters say a family of four narrowly escaped with their lives Saturday, after discovering a fierce blaze inside their home. Capt. Richard Bohn of the Cal Fire/Merced County Fire Department said 12 firefighters responded to the scene at the 1400 block of Eighth Street in Livingston around 4:15 a.m. Fortunately, no one was injured, Bohn [...]

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Nine Firefighters injured at the Chalk Fire

October 6, 2008

Nine firefighters sustained minor injuries in three unrelated vehicular accidents Friday and Saturday as personnel continued to battle the Chalk Fire in Los Padres National Forest, about 22 miles southwest of King City. The most serious injury was a possible broken nose. All of the injured were evaluated at a local hospital and released. The [...]

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Bonny Doon denied forming its own fire district

September 24, 2008

SANTA CRUZ – Bonny Doon will have to stick with County Fire and give up any hope of breaking away to establish its own fire district. Aspirations of many in the small Santa Cruz Mountains community were dashed Monday night when the Local Agency Formation Commission voted 4-3 to deny a proposal from some Bonny [...]

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Cal Fire to take over Atwater fire services

August 29, 2008

A divided city council approved a $1.5 million contract with the state to take control of its municipal fire department. The city projects that hiring Cal Fire to run the department will save about $1.4 million over the next five years — a point of close contention among the council members. Mayor Joan Faul, Mayor [...]

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Winds disperse smoke but put firefighters on alert as they battle the Oliver, Star blazes

July 1, 2008

Firefighters attacking the two remaining lightning-sparked blazes in the Sierra National Forest worked to prevent flames from exploding upslope today, when northwest winds up to 20 mph are expected to sweep into the region. The Oliver fire was 60% contained after burning more than 2,789 acres and costing an estimated $7.8 million in firefighting expenses, [...]

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