2-Year-Old Dead, 3 Hurt In San Bruno House Fire
A two-year-old child has been killed and at least three others, including a firefighter, at a two-alarm house fire in San Bruno Friday morning, a deputy fire chief said.
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A two-year-old child has been killed and at least three others, including a firefighter, at a two-alarm house fire in San Bruno Friday morning, a deputy fire chief said.
They've only been on the job two weeks, but already the nearly one-dozen just-hired firefighters are helping to keep 911 response times in check, in the City of Vallejo.
A one-alarm fire at a house in Concord early Friday morning was apparently caused by someone trying to illegally supply power to the home, a Contra Costa County fire inspector said.
The San Jose Fire Department has obtained an $8.6 million federal grant, and with it fire officials plan to hire 27 new firefighters.
High temperatures and dry conditions have contributed to the growth of the Robbers Fire in the Sierra Foothills east of Sacramento on Thursday.
A burglarized home was lit on fire in Sonoma County on Tuesday evening—the third such incident in recent months, a fire official said.
Fire officials say about 40 people have been evacuated as a fire burns in a steep and heavily wooded area near the American River Canyon in Placer County.
Federal fire officials said crews are making progress in slowing the growth of a wildfire in the Mendocino National Forest.
San Jose firefighters are battling a three-alarm house fire Wednesday morning, a fire dispatcher said.
A Santa Rosa man who hopped onto the back of a fire engine responding to an emergency call was arrested by the California Highway Patrol Tuesday.
PG&E successfully shut off a gas line at the site of a one-alarm house fire in a Martinez home, popular for its Christmas displays early Tuesday morning, fire officials said.
Federal fire officials said a wildfire in the Mendocino National Forest has grown to more 10,000 acres, forcing the closure of campgrounds and the evacuation of a handful of homes.
A man and woman pleaded not guilty to arson charges on Friday in connection with a fire that burned four homes in San Francisco's Silver Terrace neighborhood last week, prosecutors said Monday.
Five 13-year-old boys were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of sparking a brush fire by setting off fireworks in a South San Francisco park on Friday afternoon.
A single-alarm fire in the space between floors in a building on Telegraph Avenue shut down a cafe and displaced more than a dozen residents Sunday afternoon.
A 1,200-acre wildfire near Redding in Shasta County is now 40 percent contained after destroying two outbuildings and damaging five homes, according to authorities.
A four-alarm arson fire that burned four homes in San Francisco's Silver Terrace neighborhood early Tuesday caused nearly $1 million in damage, a fire department spokeswoman said Thursday.
San Jose firefighters responded to multiple fires amid Fourth of July festivities on Wednesday night, including a two-alarm house fire, fire officials said.
A suspicious four-alarm fire in San Francisco's Silver Terrace neighborhood damaged four homes and displaced 10 people early Tuesday morning.
A woman underwent a mental health evaluation after setting her Hayward home on fire Sunday evening, a Hayward Fire Department captain said.
The Vallejo Fire Department celebrated the reopening of Station 25 in north Vallejo with an open house Monday morning.
Police arrested a transient man on suspicion of arson in connection with a one-alarm apartment fire in Concord Sunday, a police sergeant said.
San Jose arson investigators went door to door Friday looking for information that might reveal who set a series of suspicious trash fires that threatened several apartment buildings in recent weeks.
One person has been hospitalized with injuries from a three-alarm fire near San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood Friday morning, a fire captain said.
Federal authorities have confirmed that arson was to blame for a fire that shut down Bay Area Rapid Transit train service into and out of San Francisco earlier this month.
