Residents are encouraged to check their evacuation zone at mendoready.org and sign up for alerts — it could save a life.

Sheriff’s officials on Wednesday night expanded the mandatory evacuation zone in El Dorado County as the Crozier Fire nearly tripled its size overnight. As of 5:16 a.m. Thursday, the Crozier ...

Long-time friends and neighbors Mike Rodman and John Silva are getting a bit of an unwelcome, front-row seat to an all-out attack on the Electra Fire in Amador County.

Evacuation orders are still in place for areas within the fire perimeter and zones CCU-E024-A and CCU-E051-B. In Amador County, evacuation warnings are in the following areas: ...

A tag from the Amador County Sheriff’s Office indicates that the residents of a home have evacuated inside the mandatory evacuation zone for the Electra Fire in Pine Grove on Tuesday evening ...

In two separate incidents on Wednesday, July 6, Amador County Sheriff’s Office deputies made arrests involving subjects unlawfully located within Electra Fire evacuation zones.

Hundreds of Amador County residents who were evacuated due to the Electra Fire are waiting to return to their homes, but many remain helpless if their homes are targeted by thieves.

The black line shows the approximate perimeter of the fire. Amador County’s official map of evacuation orders and warnings can be found here, and that for adjacent Calaveras County here.

The Electra Fire, burning in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Amador and Calaveras counties, is now California’s second biggest wildfire of the season.

AMADOR COUNTY, Calif. (KTXL) — The Electra Fire grew slightly to 4,272 acres from Wednesday night to Thursday morning and remained 40% contained, according to a news release from CAL FIRE at 7 a ...