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Heavy Rain Could Wash Rim Fire Debris Into Modesto Drinking Water
MODESTO (CBS13) – The first storm is set to hit the Sacramento area since thousands of acres of brush and trees burned in the Rim Fire in Yosemite National Park. The raging Rim Fire has been out for...
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Gov. Brown Renews Call For Federal Rim Fire Aid
SONORA, Calf. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown has filed an appeal to President Obama in a renewed effort to obtain federal aid in the wake of a Rim Fire that raged for months. The Federal Emergency...
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Federal Charges Expected For Rim Fire Suspect
SONORA, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials are expected to file charges against the person they believe started the wildfire that raged through Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Foothills earlier this...
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Feds Decline Comment On DA’s Rim Fire Assertion
SONORA, Calif. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have declined to address a district attorney’s claim that they intend to prosecute the hunter who allegedly started the Rim Fire that raged through Yosemite...
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Report: Rim Fire Damage May Cost Up To $800 Million
SONORA, Calif. (AP) — A new report estimates that the damage to the ecosystem caused by this year’s Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park may have cost the local economy $800 million. The report,...
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White House To Propose Changes In Wildfire Funding
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s upcoming budget will include a proposal to change the way the federal government pays to fight wildfires, a White House official said Saturday. The proposal...
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Heavy Rains Bring Mudslide Worries To Region Scarred By Rim Fire
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (CBS13) — Wildfires followed by rain. It’s a dangerous combination around the Rim Fire burn scars, where property owners are preparing for landslides and protecting their...
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Yosemite Now Fully Reopened Following Rim Fire
YOSEMITE (CBS13) – Nearly eight months after the massive Rim Fire lit up the forests in and around Yosemite, the park announced that all areas within the park have been reopened. The fire – which...
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Rim Fire: What Should Happen To Charred Trees Left By State’s No. 3 Largest...
STANISLAUS NATIONAL FOREST (CBS13) — Hundreds of thousands of acres of charred trees from last summer’s devastating Rim Fire are starting to rot, setting the stage for a fight over what to do with the...
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Tuolumne County Man Charged With Starting 2013 Rim Fire
FRESNO (AP) – A California man was charged Thursday with starting the state’s third-largest wildfire, a 2013 blaze that charred hundreds of square miles of land in Yosemite National Park and the...
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Rim Fire Suspect Pleads Not Guilty To Setting Fire In Stanislaus National Forest
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – A Northern California man accused of starting one of the state’s largest wildfires when he lost control of his campfire last year can leave jail while the criminal case plays out...
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Forest Service To Release Rim Fire Recovery Plan
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is expected to unveil its plan Wednesday for what to do with millions of trees killed one year ago in California’s massive Rim Fire that stand at the...
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California Environmentalists Decry Feds’ Rim Fire Tree Plan
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – U.S. Forest Service officials say they tried to balance competing interests in a plan that will allow loggers to remove trees killed in a massive central California wildfire last...
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Rim Fire Logging Raises Concerns Over Spotted Owl Population
SONORA (CBS13) — Stanislaus National Forest is looking to make money and prevent wildfires with salvage logging trees damaged in last year’s Rim Fire. Loggers can place bids to do the removal work...
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Federal Lawmakers Battling Over Bill Changing How States Pay Firefighting Costs
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Just this year alone, California firefighters have had to fight more than 4,000 fires. The state has seen at least 85,000 acres scorched by those fires. In the last five years,...
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Feds Drop Case Against Rim Fire Suspect After Deaths Of 2 Witnesses
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Two key witnesses in the case against the man suspected of staring 2013’s Rim Fire have died, leading federal prosecutors to try and dismiss the case. Keith Matthew Emerald was...
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Deaths Of 2 Witnesses Mean Charges Dropped Against Rim Fire Suspect
http://media.sacramento.cbslocal.com/CBSSAC_0105201522512500000AA.mp4 SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The man indicted for the third-largest fire in California history near Yosemite National Park is no longer...
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Yosemite Reopens After Shutdown, But Park’s Attendance Will Be Slow To Recover
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (CBS13) — Yosemite National Park reopened to visitor for the first time since the government shutdown began more than two weeks ago. Following Wednesday’s last-minute vote by to...
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Rim Fire, Third Largest California Wildfire, Finally 100 Percent Contained
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (CBS13) — The third-largest wildfire in California history has finally been 100 percent contained. More than two months after it started on Aug. 17, the Rim Fire is finally...
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Lincoln Company Quickly Salvaging Lumber From Rim, American Fires
LINCOLN (CBS13) – A Lincoln business is salvaging logs from two major California fires, and says getting to the trees early is the key to replanting them for the future. Logging trucks are loading up...
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