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, California saw some of its famed structures burn. A spate of lighting strikes this week ignited a series of wildfires in the Sierra Nevada foothills, including one that damaged multiple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanner Radcliffe, a firefighter with the Cal Fire Tuolumne Calaveras Unit, puts water on an engulfed structure during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters are battling a series of wildfires that erupted in north-central California after thousands of lightning strikes were ...

A wildfire blazing in Northern California has destroyed several residences in the historic gold mining town of Chinese Camp. The fire began Tuesday and has spread to over 6,400 acres, prompting ...

Polina Ken fled the killing fields of Cambodia and eventually made her home in Chinese Camp. She now has lost it to a wildfire. GoFundMe accounts were launched for Ken and other victims of the blaze, ...

CHINESE CAMP, Calif. (KFSN) -- A wave of lightning strikes ignited dozens of wildfires across Tuolumne and Calaveras counties this week, leaving behind a trail of destruction in the historic town of ...

Tanner Radcliffe, a firefighter with the Cal Fire Tuolumne Calaveras Unit, puts water on an engulfed structure during the Lightning Complex fire Tuesday night in Chinese Camp, Calif. (Stephen Lam / ...

Firefighters are battling a series of wildfires that erupted in north-central California after thousands of lightning strikes were reported in the region, prompting evacuations and scorching buildings ...