CHICO – A Chico was arrested on suspicion of starting the fast-growing Park Fire, which is now California's largest wildfire this year after burning at least 71,000 acres, prosecutors said.

Ronnie Dean Stout II is charged with starting the Park Fire on the afternoon of July 24 by pushing a burning car into a ...

CHICO — A 42-year-old Chico man suspected ... of an unknown man pushing a car that was on fire into a gully near Alligator Hole in upper Bidwell Park shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday.

The City of Chico has started removing hazardous trees ... Trees will be removed in Upper Bidwell Park, from the areas east ...

Ronnie Dean Stout II, of Chico, was arrested early in the morning ... 60 feet down an embankment and “into a gully near the Alligator Hole in upper Bidwell Park” shortly before 3 p.m. local ...