Court documents accused the 49-year-old academic of going on “an arson-setting spree” in the summer of 2021 while firefighters from multiple agencies were fighting the Dixie fire, which ...

SALINAS, Calif. — A former criminal justice professor has pleaded guilty to intentionally setting fires behind firefighters who were battling the Dixie Fire, which broke out in 2021 and became ...

Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, of San Jose set multiple fires near the Dixie Fire while it was burning, the court determined, according to a news release from ... News Today's news ...

The Dixie fire, which burned nearly 1 million acres and destroyed more than 1,300 homes, ignited July 13, 2021, after a Douglas fir tree fell and struck energized conductors owned and operated by ...

The Dixie Fire burned over 1,500 square miles after igniting on July 13 and destroyed over 1,000 homes. Maynard was accused of setting fires behind firefighters battling the Dixie Fire.

Pacific Gas and Electric will pay $45 million in penalties for its role in the Dixie Fire – the second-largest wildfire in California’s history – that started after a tree fell and hit the ...

The 2021 Dixie Fire — which burned parts of Butte, Lassen, Plumas, Shasta and Tehama counties — grew to a total of 963,309 acres before it was stopped. The Dixie Fire burned about 1,500 square ...

The top four wildfires in California history are the 2020 August Complex (1,032,648 acres), the 2021 Dixie Fire (963,309 acres), the 2018 Mendocino Complex (459,123 acres) and the 2020 SCU ...