It Would Turn You To Toast Pete Scully, a battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry's fire protection agency, stands next to his camper-shelled pickup truck at a Highway 94 turnoff east of where …
January 2, 2021
Sally Snipes: "I was in a funk for six months because of the black. Everything was black."
Posted January 29, 2004
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San Diego fires: Campo Creek, Volcan Mountain, Hauser Canyon
Poised to burst into flame
Red Sky The 1970 Palomar Mountain Fire. In the chaparral-covered hills east of San Diego, Saturday, September 26, dawned a burnt orange. At 6:15 that morning, the first day of deer-hunting season, two hunters reported …
May 15, 2016
Goodbye, Pines
Wait six months. That's the message native vegetation experts seek to convey to backcountry landowners itching to replant and reseed the scorched shrubs and wildflowers and cut down the blackened trees on their properties. "That …
January 29, 2004