El Dorado County Public Safety Articles

CAL FIRE has suspended all burn permits for outdoor residential burning within Alpine, Amador, El Dorado, Eastern Sacramento, Nevada, North-Eastern San Joaquin, Placer, Sierra and Yuba counties.

You have to be 18 to get divorced in California, but there’s no minimum age to get married. Child marriage survivors protested at the state Capitol, but the Legislature likely won’t act until next year.

Gov. Gavin Newsom took to his Twitter account to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would regulate gun sales and use nationwide, in a way that courts cannot change.

California is unwinding the prison-building boom of the 1980s and 1990s. The cuts are falling on small towns that banked on government jobs to anchor their communities.

More than 4 percent of death penalty convicts have been wrongfully convicted, data shows. But courts including the U.S. Supreme Court have failed to provide protections for the innocent facing death at the hands of the state.

The Tahoe Sierra may have experienced a winter for the record books, but wildfire danger is still a concern to local fire officials that many people will become lax in their preparation for wildfires because of the snowpack. That is …

Courtesy Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team & Cal Fire Residents and visitors need to be prepared to evacuate in the event of an emergency. Take the time to prepare a wildfire action plan and use this checklist to prepare your …

From Tahoe Network of Fire Adapted Communities One of the first steps to being prepared for a wildfire is to understand what wildfire warnings and alerts mean. Issued by different agencies, sometimes wildfire alert terminology can be confusing. Do you …

Clare Frank started firefighting in California at age 17 (she lied about her age on her application) and was promoted up the ranks to become the state’s first and only female Chief of Fire Protection. Along the way, she earned …

Courtesy Tahoe Resource Conservation District A team of California and Nevada scientists and practitioners has published the Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide, available for free download, with recommendations to retrofit homes. During a wildfire, 60 to 90 percent of home loss …

How to effectively communicate actionable information for preparation before extreme events, and to disseminate vital information during and after disasters.

2022 was a year that needed a lot of explaining. And California Local was there. Here are our 10 most important explanatory journalism stories from the year gone by, from immigration to cryptocurrency to wealth inequality and more.

Elon Musk says he plans to make Twitter a haven for 'free speech,' but a look at his list of investors suggests that the world's richest person may have other reasons for purchasing the highly influential social media platform.

California’s goal of zero traffic fatalities remains distant. Here are some common causes of deaths on the road that can be fixed, but haven’t been.

The Vision Zero program sets a goal for California cities to eliminate traffic fatalities, but almost a decade into the effort, the goal remains distant, and horrific tragedies on the road continue to stack up.

Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team has released the Lake Tahoe Long-Term Renter’s Guide to prepare for wildfire dangers. The free guide details how to sign up for emergency notifications, how to pack a Go-Bag, how to interpret Red Flag Warnings …

A wave of public government meeting disruptions by right-wing groups often inspired by Donald Trump has inspired a new law designed to help officials restore order to the process of running local government.

Fires, floods, earthquakes—California’s got it all. And CERT volunteers are ready to step in.

The chances of a 'biblical' megastorm devastating California have doubled over the past century, thanks to climate change, a new study warns. And as the globe continues to warm, the possibility of disaster only gets worse.

Was the deadly McKinney Fire made worse by the decline of commercial logging, or were factors such as poor forest management and climate change more important in causing the fire to explode in Siskiyou County?