A prescribed burn planned for the coming week will mark the beginning of a multi-year ecological restoration project in the biologically diverse Caples Creek watershed near Kirkwood Mountain. Eldorado ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A big orange glow accompanied by smoke Monday afternoon caught some South Shore residents off guard. Smoke from US Forest Service prescribed burns along the northern ridge ...

Smoke is seen rising from the Caples Fire in the Eldorado National Forest in El Dorado County on Oct. 9, 2019. The Caples Fire started as a prescribed burn Sept. 30 to reduce fuel and create ...

A fire in the Eldorado National Forest generated a large plume of smoke that stretched from southwest of Lake Tahoe to over 100 miles west, reaching Sacramento, California. This natural-color ...

Kyburz, Calif.—Near the top of a 7,000-foot ridge in California’s Sierra Nevada, crews wielding gasoline-dripping torches began igniting piles of small logs and branches on an unusually cold morning ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Curious what that smoky haze is when you step outside this evening? Smoke from a prescribed burn that got out of control in the El Dorado National Forest is making its way through ...