Welcome back, students and good luck this school year! 🔥📚 As you hit the books, start planning for life after graduation. CAL FIRE offers a wide range of careers where you can make a real impact in your community. Visit joincalfire.com to explore!🌱 #CALFIRECareers

One wildfire evacuation. One life-changing moment. As a young child, Daniel Berlant was evacuated from his family home due to a fast-moving fire. That experience sparked his lifelong commitment to public safety and fire prevention. Starting at 18 he has worked in various roles

Fighting fire demands agility, flexibility and aggressive response. This is the strength of #helitack – the adaptability for inserting and retrieving helitack crews directly on the #fireline , often in challenging terrain, sometimes inaccessible by ground crews. They can deploy

⚠️ TRAFFIC ALERT ⚠️ 08/12/25 at 5:55am) The #2 lane of eastbound I-80, just west of the Nevada State Line, is shut down to recover a big rig that went over the side earlier this morning. Please slow down and give crews room to work. We’ll update when the lane reopens.

NEVER leave children in a car, no matter the time of year. Vehicular heatstroke has occurred when outside temperatures were below 70°F. Sunlight can cause the inside of a car to heat up VERY quickly. Stay #WeatherReady #CoolDownTuesday weather.gov/safety/heat-ch…

While recent lightning strikes have sparked wildfires across California, it’s people—not weather—behind 95% of wildfire starts in the Golden State. 🔥🔥 Help stop the spark. Here’s how: 🚗 Park Smart—Never park on dry grass 🕙 Mow Smart—Use equipment before 10AM and never on hot,

Are you a licensed Registered Professional Forester? Join CAL FIRE’s Resource Management Team! 🌲 CAL FIRE is hiring Forester I (Nonsupervisory) positions across the state! Explore open positions here: joincalfire.com/classification… #CALFIREcareers #IgniteyourPassion

CAL FIRE firefighters are at scene of a Roadside vegetation fire at Frenchtown Road in Dobbins on both sides of the road in Yuba County.

Thursday AM Update: the Ponderosa Fire is 75% contained by firefighters.

CAL FIRE NEU conducting UAS Operations on the Ponderosa incident. UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems), are one of many tools CAL FIRE uses to map hot spots using thermal cameras, fire perimeters, and gather Incident intel that is used to aid ground resources in suppression and planning

Five years ago today, California experienced the start of one of the most devastating fire sieges in state history. On August 15, 2020, a rare dry lightning storm sparked hundreds of wildfires across California—several of which would go on to become some of the largest, most

A weather system will move through NorCal this weekend, bringing chances of t-storms and rain showers to portions of the northern Sacramento Valley, Coastal Range, southern Cascades, and the Burney Basin. Latest 🌩️🌩️🌩️ probabilities are below: #CAwx

Saturday morning Final Ponderosa Fire Update: The Ponderosa Fire now 100% contained by firefighters.

The Placer County Fire Department has introduced a new Type 6 Fire Engine to the fleet, callsign “Patrol 10” (PTL 10). This all-risk apparatus, intended to serve visitors at Hidden Falls Regional Park and the surrounding constituents of Placer County.