SANTA BARBARA CO, Calif. - Grueling work by hand crews and hotshots make up the backbone of a massive firefight. Ventana Hotshots (Courtesy: US Forest Service) Combine those forces and you've got ...

The Los Padres Hotshots were hard at work Monday putting ... control line and start a whole new fire,” said Los Padres National Forest Spokesman, Flemming Bertelsen. The thunderstorm moved ...

A map of the closed area in the Los Padres National Forest in Monterey County due to the Willow Fire. Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service A crew of hotshot firefighters were flown in Wednesday to ...

“But the Los Padres National Forest has one of the biggest problems, and management simply hasn’t done its job. There are Hotshots groups throughout the country, and they do a wonderful jo ...