Just a month after she bought her red-doored dream home, Ana Wold’s little gray Boulder Creek house burned to the ground in ...

The CZU August Lightning Complex fires scorched ... The Warrenella Fire, which started in the San Vicente Redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Aug. 16, burned through shrubs and trees and ...

The CZU August Lightning Complex fires have been fully contained, as of a 9 p.m. announcement from Cal Fire on Sept. 22. The fires that roared through the coastside and Santa Cruz Mountains in ...

The Santa Cruz City Council could advance a wildfire plan to coordinate evacuations, ensure water delivery and prepare ...

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Map of CZU Fire While it was triggered ... a delayed result of the CZU Lightning Complex fires, which had destroyed almost 1,500 buildings in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties just a year earlier.

Burned cars in the rubble of a home during the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, near Boulder Creek, on Aug. 23, 2020. In addition, people burned out of the Santa Cruz Mountains — or trying to escape ...

General aviation airports play vital roles in fighting fires and supporting supply lines when disaster strikes.

A structure on Empire Grade was engulfed in flames on Aug. 20, 2020, as a CZU Lightning Complex fire ravaged Bonny Doon. (Shmuel Thaler — Santa Cruz Sentinel file) “I remember definitely ...

The 2020 CZU Lightning Complex, made up of multiple ... or trying to escape the threat of fire there — moved into the city of Santa Cruz, stressing the city’s housing market and bringing ...