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Yet another trash bin was set ablaze in West San Jose, just hours after firefighters canvassed the area Wednesday to identify a serial arsonist suspected of igniting several other trash bins and starting a couple of grass fires since September.
Firefighters battled a blaze for four hours in an industrial area of north central Richmond that started early Wednesday morning.
The roof of a strip mall collapsed prior to the containment of a four-alarm fire early Wednesday morning in Union City, according to an Alameda County fire official.
San Jose authorities are seeking the public's help in finding who started at least eight dumpster and vegetation fires in the last few weeks, including one that was started on Monday night.
A two-alarm fire at a four-story building in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood has been controlled Thursday afternoon.
The resolution asks that Chevron make safety at the refinery its top priority, "pay its fair share" in taxes to the city and employ as many Richmond residents as possible.
Firefighters were battling a three-alarm fire at a residence in the Elmwood neighborhood of Berkeley Wednesday morning, according to a fire dispatcher.
A firefighter was injured battling a three-alarm fire at a large house in Vallejo early Tuesday morning, according to the Vallejo Fire Department.
A seagull was being blamed for causing a high-voltage power line to fall in a Berkeley neighborhood Tuesday morning, sparking a fire that spread to a home, a Berkeley fire official said.
On Monday, Vallejo Mayor Osby Davis called the fire at his law business early Saturday morning "a malicious and cowardly act" in an escalating attempt to intimidate him.
Three buildings—including two churches—were struck by Molotov cocktails within minutes of each other late Sunday night, a Santa Rosa Fire Department inspector said Monday.
Firefighters were at the scene of a truck fire at the Port of Oakland Monday morning, a dispatcher said.
Two teenage boys were arrested Thursday for allegedly starting a fire at a playground in an Antioch park, police said Friday.
A mother and her 20-year-old daughter escaped a fire that burned their home in San Jose Friday morning, a fire department captain said.
Two badly burned occupants managed to escape a structure fire that blazed in their Hercules residence Thursday afternoon, according to Hercules fire officials.
A police officer and three others were taken to a hospital late Monday night after suffering smoke inhalation during a two-alarm fire at a South San Francisco duplex, authorities said.
A portable toilet was set on fire Thursday evening near Lake Merced, according to San Francisco police.
The County of Sonoma is raising a red flag about its dwindling firefighting ranks. Officials hope several dozen people will answer this urgent call to volunteer.
A driver who crashed into a pump at a gas station in Martinez and ignited a dramatic blaze Wednesday night will not be cited or charged, a police lieutenant said Thursday.
A driver crashed into a gas pump at a station in Martinez Wednesday evening, igniting a blaze that damaged and destroyed multiple cars before it was extinguished, witnesses and fire officials said.
Firefighters responded to a one-alarm fire at a residential building in San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood Wednesday morning, a fire department spokeswoman said.
Two people, including a firefighter, suffered minor injuries in a two-alarm fire that damaged a four-unit apartment complex in San Jose Wednesday morning, a fire captain said.
One firefighter was injured in a second-alarm fire at a taqueria in downtown San Leandro early Tuesday morning, according to an Alameda County fire chief.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday presented San Francisco firefighter William Mulkeen with the Medal of Valor for his heroics on Jan. 1, 2011, saving an elderly couple from a fire in the city's Chinatown neighborhood.
Firefighters were investigating a fire behind a 99 Cent store in Antioch Thursday night, according to a fire dispatcher.
