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Prescribed burn planned for northwest Santa Rosa starting Tuesday

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Santa Rosa fire crews will conduct a prescribed burn this week on undeveloped parkland in northwest Santa Rosa.

Firefighters will be out at Youth Community Park between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday as they work to burn 9 acres on the northwest corner of the park near Piner Road and Paradise Lane.

The department uses such burns to help train firefighters on how to respond to a wildfire as the height of fire season approaches, but more recently has also used them as a tool to help manage vegetation growth.

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Investigation ongoing in Santa Rosa blaze that critically injured disabled boy

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A full investigation is ongoing into a Santa Rosa apartment fire this past weekend that left a young, disabled boy with burns to 90% of his body, officials said Monday.

The boy, who was transferred from a local hospital to a burn center in Sacramento, with life-threatening injuries remained in critical condition Monday, according to officials.

The Santa Rosa Fire Department is continuing to investigate the cause of Saturday’s fire at Walkham Townhomes, 801 Dutton Ave., Division Chief Fire Marshal Paul Lowenthal said Monday.

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Older Adults in Sonoma County to Get Fire-Safety Home Retrofits — for Free

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In August 2020, the Walbridge Fire was spreading dangerously close to Franceen Levy’s home in Monte Rio, a town nestled in a bend of Sonoma County’s Russian River. Just a few miles north, Armstrong Woods was already burning, and across the street, Levy’s neighbor was about to hightail it.

“Normally, I don’t evacuate,” said Levy, who lives alone at age 76. “I didn’t evacuate during any of the other fires or floods.” She stayed in her house in 1986 and 2019 when the Russian River turned her neighborhood into an island. She stayed in 2017 when the Tubbs Fire ravaged nearby Santa Rosa.

But for the first time in the 25 years she has lived in her Monte Rio house, Levy grabbed her two cats and drove to a hotel room in Bodega Bay. She sheltered there for two days before returning to her home, which survived.

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Project replacing Santa Rosa mobile home park lost in Tubbs Fire reaches milestone

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The first residents could return this summer to the site of the former Journey’s End mobile home park mostly leveled in the 2017 Tubbs Fire as construction of the first phase of replacement housing nears completion.

The initial group of 94 apartments is slated to be completed in May, with residents beginning to move in as early as late June. Additional units are expected to come online later this year.

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2-alarm blaze south of Santa Rosa damages 2 houses, displaces 9

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Two homes in the Moorland neighborhood just south of Santa Rosa were burned and nine people displaced after a Thursday fire that ignited in a backyard spread to one house then the other, authorities said.

Nobody was injured in the blaze in the 3200 block of Newmark Drive, which was reported at 2:56 p.m. Thursday and battled by more than 20 firefighters, said Sonoma County Fire District spokesperson Karen Hancock.

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Mobile home engine fire shuts down Golf Course Drive to Santa Rosa Avenue

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A roadway lane was shutdown for nearly an hour Sunday after a motor home began emitting smoke along the roadway, according to the Sonoma County Fire District.

The incident occurred shortly after 4:30 p.m. No injuries were reported.

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For the City of Santa Rosa, wildfire season is over

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On Monday, Santa Rosa Fire Department officials declared an end to the five-month 2022 wildfire season.

The department announced that, “While conditions around the region and state vary, locally, Santa Rosa has received enough beneficial rainfall, with more forecasted this week, to significantly reduce the threat of fires in the community.”

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Sonoma County: PG&E Pilots AI Wildfire Reduction Program

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SONOMA COUNTY, CA — The Pacific Gas & Electric Company is piloting a new program in Sonoma County that seeks to use artificial intelligence technology to detect wildfires early.

The program was rolled out across the highest-risk fire zones in the Bay Area and across PG&E’s service territory, according to a statement from the utility. The pilot couples AI technology with high-definition cameras designed to detect signs of smoke.

PG&E said it recently installed 138 HD cameras, 24 of which were located in Sonoma County. About 120 of those cameras were installed in the nine-county Bay Area, half of which were located in the North Bay.

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Chance of dry lightning triggers fire weather watch for most of Sonoma County, North Bay

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A year after lightning sparked the 55,209-acre Walbridge fire, Sonoma County is again on the verge of being hit by a dry lightning storm that, though smaller, could trigger more fires due to the North Bay’s ever-expanding withered landscape.

Concerns that dry lightning may develop across the North Bay Thursday evening, prompted the National Weather Service to issue a fire weather watch which will take effect at 5 p.m. Thursday until 11 a.m. Friday.

Dry lightning is lightning that develops whenever storms don’t produce rain. This week’s conditions are expected to be “more dry than wet,” according to the weather service.

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Cache fire’s environmental damage prompts Clearlake state of emergency

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At the front of a Creekside Mobile Home Park residence in Lower Lake, statues remain, charred, but standing, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. 56 homes were destroyed by the fast moving Cache fire, Wednesday afternoon. (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat) 2021

Cache fire’s environmental damage prompts Clearlake state of emergency

At the front of a Creekside Mobile Home Park residence in Lower Lake, statues remain, charred, but standing, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. 56 homes were destroyed by the fast moving Cache fire, Wednesday afternoon. (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat) 2021

A day after hundreds of residents in Clearlake and the neighboring town of Lower Lake fled for their lives as the fast-moving, wind-fed Cache fire engulfed homes, destroyed or damaged trees, vehicles and infrastructure, emotions remained high.

For some, though, the fear had turned into anger and frustration.

Don Shae repeatedly returned Thursday to the intersection of Dam Road and Lake Street where a roadblock kept him from accessing the rural neighborhood where the Cache fire wiped out a mobile home park and several other properties.

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