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. It was ...

T he Santa Clara County Fire Department has more than three times the space to fight fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains with last week’s opening of the Redwood Fire Station.

Santa Clara County Fire Chief Suwanna Kerdkaew speaks at the Oct. 30 grand opening of the Redwood Fire Station in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The new station is triple the size of the previous one ...