Today, Michael Geluardi still chokes up a little bit when he talks about why sunshine-yellow daffodils bloom in his garden in ...

The winds that blew through the Santa Cruz Mountains sounded like a jet engine the night that Sarah Johnston watched a tree erupt into flames from the window of her Aldercroft Heights home.

Wold is not alone. The CZU Lightning Complex fire, which ignited on Aug. 16, 2020, destroyed about 700 homes in Santa Cruz County, before it was fully contained more than a month later.

It was the start of the more than 86,000-acre CZU Lightning Complex Fire that would burn for weeks and destroy nearly 1,500 buildings. While firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the small ...

Gavin Newsom and EPA Administrator Michael Regan listen to Chris Spohrer, superintendent for state parks’ Santa Cruz district, discuss on Aug. 17, 2021 how the CZU August Lightning Complex fire ...

It was the start of the more than 86,000-acre CZU Lightning Complex Fire that would burn for weeks and destroy nearly 1,500 buildings. While firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the small ...

There is only one way in and out of the Aldercroft Heights neighborhood, so when the lightning began striking ... as a second way out during the CZU Complex fire.," said Johnston.

Known affectionately throughout the community as “Bonny Doon Bob,” Piwarzyk was remembered by friends and family as a man of ...

so when the lightning began striking that started the massive CZU Complex inferno, some of the spot fires began near Aldercroft. “And so, while they got those ones out and it never became part of the ...

In recent years, the issue of fire protection has become particularly ... In 2020, his home burned in the CZU Lightning Complex fires. Passmore said in an email that the cost of constructing ...