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An error by a lead plane nearly ran a firefighting 747 into a clump of trees during efforts to curtail the Mendocino Complex fire, triggering a low elevation drop of retardant that led to the death of a Utah firefighter and injuries to three others.
The death of a man who was struck by a Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit train in August was accidental.
The owner of a septic waste hauling company was sentenced Wednesday for dumping raw human waste into a manhole in Rohnert Park, according to the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office.
Police in Vallejo on Wednesday admitted to making a serious mistake when it took a half an hour Tuesday night for officers to respond to a call about two unattended toddlers on a second-story window ledge.
Learning from failures in last year's Wine Country wildfires, Sonoma County recently tested a new wireless emergency alert system, but it got mixed results.
A wildfire that has charred 152 acres in and near the Samuel P. Taylor State Park and triggered the evacuation of nearby residents was caused by downed PG&E power lines, officials announced Wednesday.
The evacuation orders issued for the Irving Fire in Marin County were lifted early Tuesday evening, according to Marin County Fire officials.
A large brush fire burned hundreds of acres near homes in Solano County Tuesday afternoon.
A revamped emergency alert system that grew out of last year's wine country wildfires was tested in Sonoma County Monday.
Improving conditions allowed residents who had been forced to evacuate over the weekend because of the advancing flames of the Snell Fire to return to their homes Monday.
The Snell Fire in Napa County held at approximately 2,400 acres Sunday and was at 20 percent containment as of 7 p.m., Cal Fire said.
A fast-growing wildfire erupted near Middletown Saturday afternoon, triggering mandatory evacuation orders for residents along Snell Valley Road and in Berryessa Estates.
Staff at two senior care centers abandoned residents during an evacuation as wildfires swept through the North Bay last October, state officials said Thursday as they moved to revoke licenses from the Santa Rosa facilities.
The Russian River Watershed Association is asking the public to take the temperature of water in the Russian River and its tributaries.
A 2-year-old girl reported missing earlier by Santa Rosa police has been found, police said Wednesday afternoon.
