The CalFire Lassen Modoc Unit Chief has temporarily suspended all burn permits beginning at 8 a.m. Friday, May 30. This ...

This Northern California gem boasts fewer crowds than the national parks of Southern California. Lassen Volcanic National ...

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Damaged three years ago by the second largest wildfire in California history, one of Lassen Volcanic National Park’s most popular attractions remains closed. The Dixie Fire, which burned about ...

Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, of San Jose, pleaded guilty in February to three arson counts in connection to fires in the Shasta National Forest and near the Dixie Fire in the Lassen National Forest.

A former college professor has pleaded guilty to a string of arson fires in Northern California in 2021 as fire crews were battling the second-largest fire in the state’s history.Gary Stephen ...

The fire was coming. Roughly 30 miles of dense forest withering under extreme drought stood between Lassen Volcanic national park and the Dixie fire—land ready to ignite. The historic town of ...

The Dixie Fire, which started July 13, 2021, burned about 963,309 acres in Shasta along with Plumas, Lassen, Butte and Tehama counties. Besides the five counties, entities included in the ...

The Dixie Fire burned more than 963,000 acres in the Northern California areas of Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta and Tehama Counties in July, destroying 1,329 buildings and damaging 95 others.

At the height of the operation, 6,579 people worked around the clock to battle the Dixie fire. The command center at the Lassen County Fairgrounds appeared like a small town that sprung up overnight.

The Dixie fire stopped growing ... When the fire reached Hall’s Flat and other less-steep areas in Lassen County, crews were finally able to forge ahead with bulldozers and hoses — playing ...