San Jose 3-Alarm Fire Burns Vacant Victorian Home
A fire at a vacant Victorian home in San Jose reached three alarms Thursday night, a San Jose fire captain said.
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A fire at a vacant Victorian home in San Jose reached three alarms Thursday night, a San Jose fire captain said.
Firefighters battled a four-alarm fire in Vallejo near the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom amusement park Thursday afternoon, a fire dispatcher said.
A Fairfield woman faces life in prison without parole when she is sentenced later this summer for killing her twin daughters in their apartment in October 2010.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said a pipeline strength test the company performed in 1956 damaged a weld and led to the 2010 explosion in San Bruno that left eight people dead and destroyed dozens of homes.
A big-rig caught fire Wednesday morning on an Oakland freeway off-ramp, a California Highway Patrol sergeant said.
A man has died after suffering critical injuries from an overnight fire in Oakland's Maxwell Park neighborhood according to fire officials.
San Jose firefighters responded to three fires overnight, two of which have been deemed suspicious, fire officials said.
Police were searching for a suspect who drove off after attacking someone with a baseball bat in Martinez Monday night and then crashed into a tire shop, which sparked a fire, Martinez police said.
Following a four-alarm fire in San Francisco's Portola neighborhood that injured a construction worker who had hit a gas line, PG&E and fire officials met to review response to the resulting blaze.
A woman was killed and two others were injured in a two-alarm fire at a multi-unit Berkeley residence early Thursday morning, fire officials said.
The four-alarm fire at San Francisco's Pier 29 on Wednesday afternoon caused nearly $2.4 million in damage, a fire department spokeswoman said Thursday.
A fire at Pier 29 along San Francisco's waterfront reached four alarms Wednesday afternoon before the San Francisco Fire Department was able to gain the upper hand.
Police arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of setting fire to a Los Gatos home on two separate occasions.
Agents arrived on Wednesday. less than a week after the fire near the West Oakland BART station.
A two-alarm fire in Vacaville Monday night quickly spread to two homes, killing a family dog although no residents were injured.
A dog died after alerting its owner to a residential fire in southwest Santa Rosa early Monday morning, a Santa Rosa Fire Department battalion chief said.
Firefighters extinguished a two-alarm fire at a construction site in San Francisco's Hunter's Point neighborhood early Saturday morning.
Fire officials said a brush fire burning in an unincorporated area of Alameda County is 85 percent contained.
Two people critically injured in a Livermore apartment explosion last year were arrested Thursday on suspicion of causing the explosion that killed the third person in the apartment, police said.
PG&E spokesman Joe Molica said the San Bruno Avenue fire presented a "unique situation." In a normal situation crews can shutoff a building's gas valve but in this case the valve was too close to the fire.
Police are trying to determine whether a fire near a Bay Area Rapid Transit station that shut down train service between San Francisco and Oakland was intentionally set.
Paramedics broke into a burning house in San Jose to rescue a sleeping 17-year-old girl Friday morning, a fire department spokesman said.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission was running an emergency drill Thursday morning when they got the call about the fire near the West Oakland BART station.
Bay Area Rapid Transit trains began running between San Francisco and the East Bay shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday. Trains had been shut down for the entire day following an overnight fire next to the East Oakland tracks.
