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It's now the biggest and fiercest wildfire to scorch California yet this season, but for a brief moment last week, fire crews thought they had the Lava fire beat. They couldn't have been more wrong.

Deputies with the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed a man they said opened fire on them in an evacuation zone of the Lava fire, authorities said. Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue ...

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As historic heat roasts the Pacific Northwest, a large fire has erupted in Northern California and continues to grow. The lightning-caused Lava Fire, burning west of Mount Shasta in interior Northern ...

In what is perhaps an ominous harbinger of the coming fire season, crews are battling multiple wildfires across California while much of the region remains mired in treacherous heat and bone-dry ...

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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The cooler, wetter weather has given firefighters on the previously fast-moving Little Lava Fire the upper hand, and that means downgraded or lifted evacuation levels for Sunriver ...