Fire Damages Private Menlo Park School, No Classes Until Next Week
A private elementary school in Menlo Park will be closed until next week due to a one-alarm fire that destroyed a building on campus early Thursday morning, a fire chief said.
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A private elementary school in Menlo Park will be closed until next week due to a one-alarm fire that destroyed a building on campus early Thursday morning, a fire chief said.
Federal investigators continue to look into what caused last month's fire at the Richmond refinery.
A second-alarm fire in an Alameda apartment building displaced 15 residents early Wednesday morning, according to a fire captain.
An early morning structure fire in San Jose that displaced 13 occupants from three units was under control Tuesday morning, according to a San Jose fire captain.
Two portable toilets were set on fire in San Francisco's Richmond District early Friday morning, police said.
State fire officials are planning to bring in more resources to battle a pair of wildfires in Northern California that doubled in size overnight and is threatening nearly two dozen residences.
All lanes of state Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains reopened after a seven-hour closure caused when a big rig and an adjacent hillside caught fire Wednesday night, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A veteran firefighter who has been in critical condition since he suffered a heart attack at the scene of a church fire in downtown San Jose on Thursday has regained consciousness.
As nearly two years have passed since a San Bruno neighborhood was rocked by a natural gas pipeline explosion, Assemblyman Jerry Hill met with survivors at the blast site Tuesday to discuss efforts to reform the utilities.
A fast-moving fire that broke out in a Concord home early Saturday ended up destroying the home, and a second home as well.
A firefighter was hospitalized after battling a three-alarm fire at a San Jose church late Thursday morning, a fire captain said.
Firefighters have extinguished a two-alarm fire that burned at a strip mall in San Jose early Thursday morning, a fire captain said.
Firefighters battled a three-alarm fire in a commercial nursery in San Jose late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, a San Jose fire captain said.
An electrical malfunction in a bathroom might have caused a fire at the Calistoga Inn Tuesday morning, a Calistoga firefighter said.
A two-alarm fire in San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood on Monday afternoon caused more than $400,000 in damage to two residential buildings, a fire department spokeswoman said Tuesday.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is calling for a federal investigation into gasoline price spikes that followed the fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond earlier this month. The call comes as investigations focus on the type of crude oil used at the site.
Members of several investigative agencies provided an update on the Chevron Refinery fire for residents of the West County community on Monday.
Smog-producing hydrocarbons are still leaking at unlawful levels at the Chevron oil refinery in the wake of the Aug. 6 fire, but pollution control officials said they expect to stop it by Tuesday.
A two-alarm fire that burned two buildings in San Francisco's NoeValley neighborhood Monday afternoon has been extinguished, a fire department spokeswoman said.
A grass fire near a Martinez high school prompted a brief shelter-in-place order for students late Thursday morning, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District captain said.
It could take weeks to identify the two elderly men who died in a fire at a debris-filled home in San Francisco's Excelsior District last Friday, according to the medical examiner's office.
Fire officials say dozens of buildings, many of them likely homes, have been destroyed in a fire burning outside the Northern California community of Manton.
Firefighters responded to a fire at a commercial building in Santa Rosa on Monday night that was related to a marijuana grow operation, fire officials said.
The California Highway Patrol was responding to a traffic fatality on northbound Interstate Highway 101 in Novato, after a vehicle struck a power pole and caught fire early Tuesday morning.
The monitors are not designed to test for many of the pollutants that surface following refinery fires like the recent one at the Chevron refinery in Richmond.
