A new wildfire was reported today at 3:23 p.m. in Riverside County, California. Palms Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management for five hours. At this time, there is no data on the containment status of the fire and the cause has yet to be determined.

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State regulators ordered Southern California Edison to identify fire risks on its unused transmission lines like the century-old equipment suspected of igniting the Eaton wildfire.

First discovered: 1:42 p.m. Dec. 31 A new wildfire was reported today at 1:42 p.m. in Mariposa County, California. Bagby Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. At this time, there is no data on the containment status of the fire and the cause has yet to be determined.