Stanislaus National Forest crews plan to do prescribed burning on up to 1,440 acres starting later this month in the Cedar Ridge area and near Italian Bar Road, depending on
An old video of US firefighters conducting a controlled burn in a forest has resurfaced in social media posts that falsely claimed it as "proof" the Chinese Communist Party was directly responsible for fires that ravaged southwestern China in February and March 2024. The video was in fact posted two years earlier, in March 2022, by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.