Firefighters, police officers and sheriff s deputies responded to a chimney flue fire reported at 9:34 a.m. Friday in a hillside home on East Jackson Street in Sonora.
Tuolumne County has a new draft of its Community Wildfire Protection Plan, it’s 293 pages long, a public comment period is ending in less than two weeks, and the nonprofit
The Sonora City Council voted 5-0 this week to support a Tuolumne Fire Safe Council grant application for about $1 million to reduce fuels and maintain fire breaks and bulldozer-clear
Mar 2, 2021 06:15 pm Sonora Fire Department Chief Aimee New standing and Sonora City Administrator Mary Rose Rutikanga sitting in the new engine
Sonora, CA – The engine pictured in the image box is the newest tool Sonora Fire Department has to battle blazes.
On Monday, the new $560,000 Smeal Type 1 Fire Engine was delivered to the Shepherd Street fire station in Sonora. It was paid for through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant that chipped in $$380,000. Another $100,000 was from the city’s General Fund and the remaining came from reimbursements from other agencies that the department assisted during fires outside of the city.