UPDATE: Forward Progress Stopped of Brush Fire in Novato Near Big Rock Ridge
Multiple fire crews have stopped the forward progress of a brush fire burning on a hillside near Novato late Friday morning, according to authorities.
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Multiple fire crews have stopped the forward progress of a brush fire burning on a hillside near Novato late Friday morning, according to authorities.
Cal Fire officials on Thursday afternoon confirmed that firefighters have stopped the forward progress of a brush fire burning along northbound Highway 101 near the Sargent overcrossing in Gilroy.
The driver of a vehicle that went off the side of the road near Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton was rescued Wednesday after plunging some 300 feet down the mountain, authorities said.
A vegetation fire was burning in Morgan Hill Wednesday and threatening at least one structure in the area, according to fire officials.
Crews with Cal Fire and the San Mateo County Fire Department are set to conduct a one-day burn across a total of 7 acres on land owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday morning.
A brush fire was burning in a canyon area in South San Jose Tuesday afternoon.
A Cal Fire helicopter crew assisted in the rescue of an injured hiker in a south San Jose park Sunday afternoon.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday highlighted new firefighting equipment that would be part of his proposed $2 billion investment in wildfire and emergency preparedness.
A vegetation fire in the area of John Henry Johnson Parkway and Leland Road in Pittsburg was holding at five acres Sunday evening.
A 3-alarm fire on the western side of Highway 101 between Windsor and Healdsburg burned at least one home, several vehicles and forced the California Highway Patrol to briefly close the freeway Saturday afternoon.
Fire crews in the East Bay manage to contain a fire burning in Mount Diablo State Park early Friday morning, according to authorities.
Cal Fire added two more counties to its growing list of regions of Northern California where it has suspended burn permits, in response to increasing fire danger posed by dead grass and hotter, drier conditions.
Sonoma County Cal Fire crews are responding to a vegetation fire in Cloverdale Monday afternoon, according to authorities.
The start of fire season should be a wakeup call for home buyers in this red hot real estate market. That's because finding insurance for your dream house, if it's next to wildland may give you sticker shock.
When an SUV caught fire on the shoulder of Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains Saturday, the red flag "warning" changed to "red alert" as the fire quickly ignited the surrounding hillside.
Starting Monday, Cal Fire is suspending all burn permits for outdoor residential burning within the State Responsibility Areas of Monterey and San Benito counties.
A wildfire burning amid hot, dry and windy conditions has prompted authorities to issue an evacuation order for a rural area north of Chico.
Cal Fire has suspended burn permits in six Northern California counties -- Napa, Solano, Sonoma, Colusa, Lake and Yolo.
Westbound lanes of I-80 have reopened Tuesday evening after a vegetation fire sparked by a burning vehicle spread to vegetation at the American Canyon Road off-ramp in Vallejo, according to authorities.
Under May red flag conditions, officials in California on Monday were issuing dire warning for an early and longer fire season this year.
Humidity levels plunged into the single digits and winds picked up early Monday, triggering a Red Flag Fire Warning for Solano County and the Central Valley.
Firefighters stopped the forward progress of a 2-acre wildfire burning in Big Basin Redwoods State Park on Sunday afternoon.
The first weekend in May marks the beginning of a statewide Wildfire Awareness Week -- a reminder that fire season isn't what is used to be in the Golden State.
A 200-acre vegetation fire burning in Mendocino County is 20 percent contained.
A car traveling along Highway 92 in San Mateo County just west of Skyline Blvd. plunged through a guardrail and down a hillside, but emergency crews found no sign of any victims, except for footprints leading away from the crash site.
