Santa Barbara County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig plans to retire at the end of the year, county officials announced Friday.

Santa Barbara County’s new Regional Fire Communications Center centralizes dispatch for all county fire agencies and emergency medical services. The 9-1-1 phone lines to local dispatch centers ...

Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: Capitan Inc A new wildfire was reported today at 5:10 p.m. in Santa Barbara County, California. Capitan Inc Fire has been burning on state land. At this time ...

The newest Santa Barbara City Fire ladder truck is now in service. It cost $1.67-million and was ordered in 2022.

Santa Barbara County’s 9-1-1 dispatch center phone lines were working again Wednesday morning after repair crews worked to restore service to severed Frontier fiber lines.

The Butler Fire grew by 40% over the weekend, and more evacuations were ordered Sunday in the mountains of Siskiyou County.

The new technology is improving detection response times throughout Santa Barbara County and the state.

Crystal Bermudez is your community news reporter covering northern Santa Barbara County, including the Santa Maria, Lompoc and Santa Ynez valleys. As smoke from the Madre Fire continues to drift ...

Residents in the area of Siskiyou County’s Butler Fire were told to prepare to evacuate because of an ominous weather forecast. Gifford Fire: Massive blaze in central California threatens more ...

Santa Barbara, Calif.- A southbound semi-truck caught fire late Wednesday evening on Highway 101 near the Bailard offramp south of Carpinteria and was ...

The derelict boat was first reported to Montecito Fire on July 8 around 5:30 p.m. Fire personnel determined that it was unoccupied and notified the Coast Guard, Harbor Patrol, Santa Barbara Police, ...

The Bay Area Air District on Thursday issued an air quality advisory due to smoke from wildfires burning in the northern Sacramento Valley area.