Alligator Hole is a popular area for people to cool off during the summer and is about six miles east of Chico's city plaza. Upper Bidwell Park is one of the largest municipal parks in the nation ...

Stout was arrested on July 25, the day after the fire started near Chico in Upper Bidwell Park. Prosecutors said a man was seen pushing a burning car into a gully near Alligator Hole. Cal Fire ...

The fire, reported to have charred more than 164,000 acres in Butte and Tehama counties as of early Friday, began near the Alligator Hole on Big Chico Creek in Upper Bidwell Park shortly before 3 ...

Ronnie Dean Stout II, of Chico, who is being held without bail ... pushing a car that was on fire into a gully near the Alligator Hole on Wednesday, according toButte County District Attorney's ...

CHICO — Chicoans were happy to be able to return to upper Bidwell Park Friday after the park closed July 24 when a wildfire started at Alligator Hole quickly spread. Joshua Clark was hiking with ...

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.

Prosecutors allege the fire started when Ronnie Stout sent his mother’s car ablaze 60 feet down an embankment near Alligator Hole in Chico’s Upper Bidwell Park. That gave the fire its match to ...

On July 24, 42-year-old Ronnie Dean Stout II of Chico, California, was allegedly seen pushing a vehicle that was on fire into a gully near the Alligator Hole in upper Bidwell Park, sending it down ...

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.

A 42-year-old man is accused of starting the fast-moving Park Fire in Chico by pushing a burning car into a gully. Ronnie Stout was arrested at 2 a.m. Thursday by Cal Fire arson and district ...