For the past nine months, Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District (TMFPD) have been using two bulldozers for fire containment. They are the only ones in Washoe County to have those machines.

This event allows children, some currently battling pediatric cancer, to get hands on with big trucks and tractors. It's a first time experience and rare opportunity for kids to drive and operate bulldozers, haul trucks, excavators, and many other pieces of heavy equipment.

Crews working around the clock took advantage of cooler overnight weather as they braced for a spike in daytime temperatures near California's Big Sur where a wildfire has destroyed 34 homes and killed a bulldozer driver working to contain the blaze.

Placer County Sheriff’s detectives say they have recovered around $800,000 in stolen vehicles from a rural property in rural Northern California.