Chevron's Damaged Crude Oil Unit Undergoes Repairs, But Is It Enough?
The damaged crude oil unit that exploded in flames at Chevron's Richmond refinery last August is now undergoing repairs, but the work is being done under close scrutiny.
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The damaged crude oil unit that exploded in flames at Chevron's Richmond refinery last August is now undergoing repairs, but the work is being done under close scrutiny.
Nicholas Hudson, 19, of Daly City, is one of several people accused of vandalizing and torching the 8X-Bayshore Express bus around 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 29, hours after the Giants had beaten the Detroit Tigers to clinch the World Series.
San Francisco police arrested a second suspect Wednesday in the destruction of a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus following last month's Giants' World Series win.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors honored bus driver Alan Yam with a proclamation for keeping his eight passengers safe and evacuating them from the bus before it was destroyed by fire.
San Francisco Municipal Railway is out about $1 million because its insurance does not cover the damage caused by vandals who set a bus on fire during revelry after the Giants' World Series win, a Muni spokesman said Monday.
A fire that badly damaged a Pleasant Hill nail salon late Sunday night started when some sort of object was thrown through one of the windows of the business, a fire official said.
A fire at a San Rafael apartment complex Saturday morning that appears to have been sparked by barbecue materials left on a deck overnight displaced as many as 10 residents.
San Francisco police on Wednesday released a video of suspects believed to be responsible for the arson of a Muni bus after the Giants' World Series victory on Sunday.
Firefighters were at the scene of a residential fire near the Hayward BART station Monday, a fire official said.
The San Jose Fire Department is investigating the cause of three major fires since early Sunday that displaced a total of 22 people, killed eight puppies and badly damaged four homes and a former gymnastics club.
Fire crews contained a three-alarm fire at a warehouse in San Jose that houses a gymnastics facility, according to a San Jose Fire dispatcher.
San Jose fire crews extinguished a four-alarm blaze that displaced 12 people Sunday morning.
A two-alarm fire that started at a home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood Thursday afternoon has spread to an adjacent home, a San Francisco fire spokeswoman said.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of starting a fire Tuesday afternoon at his girlfriend's Benicia apartment, where he allegedly was involved in a domestic violence incident the previous day, a police lieutenant said.
A two-alarm apartment fire displaced three residents in San Jose Monday afternoon, a fire captain said.
Fire officials say evacuation orders have been lifted, but one home has been destroyed by a fire burning in Lake County.
A 300+ acre wildfire burning Thursday off Highway 29 south of Lower Lake prompted evacuations for the Mercy Spring and Twin Lakes subdivisions, where authorities estimated at least 60 homes were threatened.
A woman's body was found inside a Castro Valley home that burned in a suspicious fire early this morning, a sheriff's sergeant said.
Accidental releases from industrial facilities would require more extensive monitoring of emissions in the surrounding community under new rules adopted by air quality officials in response to the Chevron refinery fire this summer.
Battling a three-alarm fire at a restaurant supply business in San Carlos early Tuesday morning was complicated by the amount of material packed in the warehouse-like building, a deputy fire chief said.
A four-alarm fire that started at a restaurant in San Francisco's West Portal neighborhood injured two firefighters and shut down light-rail service on multiple Municipal Railway lines this morning, fire and transit officials said.
A serial arsonist plaguing a West San Jose neighborhood with trash bin fires since September apparently caused another dumpster fire on Thursday night, fire officials said.
Firefighters responded to a second-alarm fire in Mill Valley early Friday morning, a fire dispatcher said.
A South San Jose husband and wife were injured and displaced Friday morning when a two-alarm house fire destroyed their home, fire officials said.
A woman remained hospitalized Thursday after an explosion and two-alarm fire at an East San Jose home on Wednesday afternoon left her seriously burned.
