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nvestigators reviewing last year's house fire in Diamond Heights that killed two San Francisco firefighters issued a set of safety recommendations aimed at preventing a similar tragedy in the future.
Firefighters worked to control a two-alarm fire at a San Rafael building supply center and lumber yard early Friday morning, a San Rafael fire chief said.
PG&E crews are making repairs to a cable that failed in an underground vault in San Francisco's Financial District on Thursday afternoon, sparking a fire and prompting the closure of several streets.
Just after 7 a.m. Tuesday, Alameda County fire station number 24 was called to the scene of an apartment fire where they located a mother trapped by flames in an upstairs unit.
A man who died after being removed from a burning house in Pittsburg on Thursday has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner's office as 41-year-old John Guidinger.
The analysis was called for by Mayor Chuck Reed to look into ways to save the city money.
A Fairfield woman will not serve any more jail time for the deaths of her three young children and niece in an apartment fire in 2010, a judge ruled Friday.
A 34-year-old woman who was critically injured in a fire at her Concord home on Monday died Wednesday morning, a fire official said.
A woman was critically injured in a two-alarm fire at her Concord apartment Monday afternoon, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District official said.
A fire that caused heavy damage to a Hayward home Thursday afternoon appears to have been caused by illegal wire splicing, a Hayward fire captain said.
Four years after a fire burned down the Original Joe's restaurant in San Francisco's Tenderloin, the owners have reopened in a new location in the city's North Beach neighborhood.
Firefighters responded to the Panhandle in San Francisco Thursday morning after passersby reported smoke coming from a parked tour bus.
A woman who was burned in a fire at her Santa Rosa apartment last week died Monday, according to the San Francisco medical examiner's office.
Three people were taken to a hospital for evaluation Monday morning after a one-alarm fire filled a San Francisco apartment building with smoke, a fire department spokeswoman said.
An "extremely remorseful" elderly man admitted Friday that he accidentally started a brush fire that destroyed 29 homes near Reno.
Oakland fire officials are investigating why two fires broke out in the same apartment unit in less than four hours Friday, a fire spokesman said.
About 10,000 people are evacuating their homes after wind gusts up to 82 mph pushed a fast-moving fire brush south of Reno, Nev., out of control.
Firefighters tackled a two-alarm blaze that caused about $100,000 in damage to a San Jose barber shop Wednesday morning.
A two-alarm fire in San Francisco's Richmond District early Sunday morning injured two firefighters and caused more than $1 million in damage to three residential buildings.
A family of five escaped a fire that destroyed their Martinez home early Tuesday morning thanks to smoke detectors, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman said.
A five-alarm blaze at a building in Fairfield is under control Friday night, although fire crews remained on the scene to watch for hot spots, Fairfield fire officials said.
A natural gas pipeline ruptured east of Rio Vista on Friday night, sparking a fire that shot up large flames.
Mountain View fire crews were able to control a vegetation fire sparked by downed high voltage power lines near the Microsoft Corporation campus Thursday night, fire officials said.
A two-alarm fire at a two-story San Jose home was controlled Thursday morning after crews fought the fire for about two hours, a San Jose fire captain said.
