Firefighters Find Pot Plants In Burning San Jose Home
Firefighters are battling a blaze at what is believed to be a marijuana grow house in San Jose on Tuesday afternoon, a fire captain said.
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Firefighters are battling a blaze at what is believed to be a marijuana grow house in San Jose on Tuesday afternoon, a fire captain said.
The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued several severe citations and fines of up to $21,000 to the San Francisco Fire Department last week for violations related to a fire response in June that killed two veteran members of the force.
A two-alarm fire at an apartment building in San Ramon caused injuries to at least one person Friday afternoon, according to fire officials.
Four people were injured, two critically, in a two-alarm fire in San Francisco's Mission District early Thursday morning, fire department officials said.
Demolition work began Monday on the top two floors of a four-story apartment building near the University of California at Berkeley that was badly damaged in a five-alarm fire earlier this month.
Three San Franciscans and one police officer were recognized at City Hall Monday for rescuing a man from a burning car last week.
A three-alarm fire on Saturday night destroyed several units at Village Green Apartments on Homestead Road.
Oakland firefighters extinguished a one-alarm structure fire at a residence in West Oakland Saturday morning.
A California Highway Patrol officer suffered minor injuries when his patrol car crashed and caught fire on northbound U.S. Highway 101 in Sausalito on Sunday night.
Shetarra James of Fairfield was found guilty on four counts of involuntary manslaughter and four counts of felony child endangerment in the fire deaths of her three young children and niece.
Firefighters put out an apartment fire in San Francisco's Inner Richmond district Sunday morning, according to an assistant fire chief.
Palo Alto voters passed a ballot measure that will repeal the rights of firefighters and police officers to have arbitrators settle their salary disputes with the city and another measure designating 10 acres of parkland for a new compost facility, according to preliminary election results Tuesday night.
Fire crews have extinguished a three-alarm fire at "Star Wars" director George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in Marin County.
Shetarra James' murder trial got under way Thursday morning in Solano County Superior Court, a year and a half after the Fairfield apartment fire that claimed the lives of her three young children and niece.
A wildfire in unincorporated Napa County northeast of Napa has been fully contained and was expected to be completely out by 8 a.m. Thursday, Napa County Fire Marshal Pete Munoa said Wednesday afternoon.
Winter is approaching, which means it's time for us all to think about air quality, as Winter Spare the Air season officially begins Tuesday.
The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for hills in the East Bay and the North Bay beginning early Tuesday.
Two people were airlifted to a hospital after their motor home caught fire on Bethel Island this morning, the East Contra Costa Fire District's chief said.
Bulos 'Paul' Zumot, a Palo Alto hookah bar owner convicted of strangling his girlfriend and setting her body on fire two years ago, was sentenced Friday to 33 years in state prison.
A 73-year-old man was critically injured in an apartment fire in Antioch early Friday morning, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District officials said.
A woman who pulled an unconscious big-rig driver from a fiery crash to safety last week was presented with an award Thursday for her heroism.
A grassfire burned Wednesday afternoon at Camp Parks in Dublin, authorities told CBS 5.
Twenty years ago Thursday, a hillside fire blown out of control by hot, dry winds killed 25 people and destroyed more than 3,000 homes in the Oakland and Berkeley hills.
The KCBS and Chronicle Insider says it's astounding how quickly Oakland rebuilt 20 years after the firestorm that killed 25 people and destroyed 4,000 homes and apartments.
