Dryer Blamed For Fire That Damaged San Jose Home
A family was displaced by a one-alarm fire that caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to their San Jose home Wednesday morning, a fire captain said.
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A family was displaced by a one-alarm fire that caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to their San Jose home Wednesday morning, a fire captain said.
Federal investigators are now involved in the hunt for information leading to the arrest of anyone involved with dozens of arson fires in Novato.
A one-alarm fire at the Tesla Motors facility in Palo Alto early Wednesday morning was extinguished by the building's sprinkler system, a Palo Alto fire official said.
Animal rights activists said they caused the fire that destroyed 14 big-rig tractors and several trailers at California's Harris Farms cattle operation.
Authorities are searching for at least one person - if not more - believed responsible for lighting fires in grassy areas of Novato since the weekend.
Firefighters have controlled a two-alarm fire that damaged a vacant house in San Jose's Japantown Monday morning, a fire captain said.
Five people were hurt and 16 residents displaced by a three-alarm fire at a large apartment complex in San Jose early Monday morning, fire officials said.
At least 60 birds were killed in a fire in a home near Lake Merritt in Oakland Thursday evening, a fire battalion chief said.
Cal Fire is increasing its staff and canceling burn days and planned debris burning in response to increased fire danger because of an unusually dry winter, Cal Fire officials said.
A man was carjacked in San Francisco's Bayview District on Monday evening and officers later found the car torched, police said.
A fire in a house that killed a Vacaville woman Monday was unintentional and most likely caused by a lit cigarette, Vacaville police said.
Two more winter Spare the Air alerts were issued over this past holiday weekend, and once again hundreds of complaints were made about people burning wood fires in their homes.
Fire crews responded to a three-alarm blaze at an office building in San Mateo Monday afternoon.
Police are investigating a fire that killed a man at a Livermore home Friday morning.
Fire investigators were touring two damaged homes after a blaze Wednesday night overtook the structures and forced the evacuation of more than a dozen other Berkeley Hills residences.
Air quality officials are ready to crackdown after too many people ignored calls for voluntary, as well as mandatory restrictions on wood burning fires over the Christmas weekend.
Lefty O'Doul's is once again collecting toys for needy and homeless children.
Investigators are still trying to determine whether the fire, which displaced 41 people, was intentional or an accident.
Three people have suffered minor injuries in a five-alarm fire that was burning in three buildings near San Francisco's Alamo Square.
Firefighters extinguished a fast-moving three-alarm grass fire in north Vallejo on Thursday, according to a fire official. No structures were damaged and no injuries were reported.
A 23-year-old man was in critical condition after being shot while driving near Children's Hospital in Oakland Thursday morning, police said.
A Pittsburg man has been arrested and charged with felony arson for allegedly setting more than 50 fires in eastern Contra Costa County over the past two years, authorities said.
Arson investigators have been dispatched to the scene of a fatal fire in Oakland Sunday morning, a fire department dispatcher said.
Firefighters extinguished a one-alarm fire Tuesday morning at a Menlo Park home near Menlo-Atherton High School, a fire official said.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced Friday afternoon that air quality is expected to continue to be unhealthy and that burning wood, firelogs or any solid fuel, both indoors and outdoors, will be illegal all day Saturday.
