EVENING UPDATES - CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire Department battled 3 significant vegetation fires throughout Riverside County. Fire Captain Richard Cordova, PIO Tawny Castro and Fire Captain Thomas Shoots provide updates on each fire. #RecheFire - 437 Acres 5% Contained #HighlandFire - 105 Acres 20% Contained #RabbitFire - 2,815 Acres 0% Contained All Acreages and Containments in the video are as of 8:30 p.m. Please continue to follow @CALFIRERRU for updates and information on each of these fir

CAL FIRE is proud to announce the first of the CAL FIRE Hawks, an S70i helicopter, is now in service and ready to take to the skies! We look forward to using this tool to enhance our capabilities and increase operational safety so we can better serve the citizens of #California. | CAL FIRE

CAL FIRE's Copter 604, based out of Hollister Helitack Base, was recently dispatched to support the #WhiteFire. Mission: perform an aerial ignition of a 228-acre unburned "island." Working in coordination with Incident Management Team 1 and Kern County Fire Department, the S70i FIREHAWK team used a "Plastic Sphere Dispenser" to deploy 4,000 "Dragon Eggs." The unburned area presented an ongoing risk to firefighters. @calfiresandiego | CAL FIRE

High above the fire line, a specialized aircraft captures real-time images and heat data to support the fight on the ground. Part of CAL FIRE’s Remote Sensing program, Intel 641 uses advanced sensors to map fire perimeters through smoke and relay critical information to incident commanders. This technology helps us keep Californians safe by allowing us to make better informed decisions in fire suppression efforts. It’s another example of CAL FIRE’s ongoing commitment to innovation in wildfire re