by Roger Sideman No home is fireproof and no hillside community in bone-dry Santa Cruz County is beyond the clutch of volatile wildfires. As homeowners witnessed in last month's Trabing and Martin fires, luck or weather can make the difference between escaping or not escaping disaster. But as residents search for lessons from the worst fire season on recent record -- months away from the rainstorms that will turn dry grass green again -- some stories from recent fire...

Planning and training for the worst disasters paid off for hundreds of Santa Cruz County animals when three major wildfires struck...

About 2:50 p.m. on June 11, a wildfire that broke out earlier in the afternoon resulted in evacuations of most of Bonny Doon, some...

by Sylvie Boland On June 3, San Lorenzo Valley residents gathered at the high school to learn about watershed from a few experts...