Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What began with the crackling lightning of thunderstorms early Tuesday morning has turned into a battle against blistering heat.

CHINESE CAMP, Calif. - New video shows the aftermath of a wildfire that destroyed part of a historic California Gold Rush town. CALFIRE officials have named the cluster of 22 separate fires the TCU ...

IS NOW LEFT IN RUINS. PAULINA KEN IS A CAMBODIAN REFUGEE WHO HAS LIVED HERE IN CHINESE CAMP FOR MORE THAN TEN YEARS. AFTER SURVIVING THE KILLING FIELDS, SHE’S NOW EXPERIENCING EVEN MORE HARDSHIP. THE ...

CHINESE CAMP, Calif. - New video of the TCU September Lightning Complex fires shows firefighters who are battling the blaze at Chinese Camp narrowly escaping being swept away by the inferno. Erika Kay ...

A ferocious wildfire has torn through Chinese Camp, Calif., threatening to erase more than 170 years of Gold Rush history as flames consume the town where Chinese miners once sought fortune amid ...

Chinese Camp resident Polina Ken, who lived in the town 15 years before she lost nearly everything she owns in the devastating 6-5 Fire on Sept. 2, is glad that most of her burned property has been ...

A quick-moving wildfire scorched thousands of acres Tuesday and burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp. The fire rapidly ...

Chuck Holland, Special to the Democrat Sep 25, 2025 Sep 25, 2025 Updated Sep 26, 2025 Ever since the 6-5 Fire devastated Chinese Camp, the Tuolumne County Historical Society’s Research Center has ...

SURVIVED THE FIRE. INSIDE THE CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY. BOOKS PAINT THE PICTURE OF WHAT CHINESE CAMP WAS LIKE IN THE MID 1800S. PEOPLE CAME IN FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD. CHINESE GOLD MINERS FLOCKED TO ...