2-Alarm Fire Torches Hercules House
Firefighters were at the scene of a two-alarm house fire in Hercules, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District dispatcher said.
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Firefighters were at the scene of a two-alarm house fire in Hercules, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District dispatcher said.
The Forest Service says a fire burning outside of Yosemite National Park is now 50-percent contained after officials brought in more manpower to fight the blaze.
The connector ramp from northbound state Highway 87 in San Jose to Interstate Highway 280 was reopened following a brush fire Monday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Fire officials are reporting steady progress overnight in fighting a large wildfire outside Yosemite National Park.
The main highway into Yosemite National Park remained closed Friday as firefighters continued to battle a wildfire outside of the park.
One of the main entrances into Yosemite National Park is closed as a wildfire burns just outside the park.
Thousands of evacuees are returning home after fire crews allowed a burning propane rail tanker to burn itself out, ending the threat of a major explosion in the city of Lincoln.
Firefighters in Placer County prepared for a bold attempt to drain a burning propane rail tanker after the process to head off a catastrophic explosion was slowed by the fire's intense heat.
According to Cal Fire officials, firefighters took on a 200-acre grass fire east of Livermore on Tuesday...
A woman escaped a two-alarm fire at her Redwood City home Monday morning after a smoke alarm woke her up, a Redwood City fire battalion chief said.
An elderly woman injured in a two-alarm house fire in Oakland on Thursday night succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in San Francisco Friday morning, fire and hospital officials said.
A man who was killed in a house fire in unincorporated Martinez early Tuesday morning has been identified as 64-year-old Thomas Pattillo.
San Francisco Fire investigators continued to search Thursday morning for the cause of a two-alarm fire that gutted two Haight Street businesses.
A California law that imposes an annual wildfire fee on rural residents may have an unintended consequence—sapping the state fire agency of money it needs to fight wildland blazes.
Fire officials in Redwood City are warning property owners that brass fittings are being stolen from sprinkler systems and standpipes throughout the city.
Two women who were injured in a house fire in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood on Sunday night both died Tuesday, according to the medical examiner's office.
A wild land management plan for the East Bay hills has been approved, but not everyone is happy with it, believing the plan doesn't go far enough.
One person was killed in a house fire in Martinez early Tuesday morning, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District official said.
An elderly woman and her caregiver suffered severe burns before they were rescued from a fire at a San Francisco home late Sunday night, an assistant fire chief said.
A family of three was forced out of their home after a two-alarm fire brought more than a dozen firefighters to a converted garage in Oakland early Thursday morning, an Oakland fire captain said.
Fairfield Fire Marshal Morgana Yahnke said Tuesday afternoon that Monday's seven-alarm, 103-acre vegetation fire started along a walking path between a creek and a housing subdivision near Dawson Creek Road.
A five-acre grass fire just south of TPC Stonebrae golf course in Hayward on Tuesday was caused entirely by accident, according to Hayward fire Capt. Thor Poulsen.
Firefighters are battling a seven-alarm grass fire in the Cordelia area just outside of Fairfield.
Californians who receive their primary fire protection from Cal Fire may soon have to start paying extra for the service.
Firefighters responded to a one-alarm structure fire in San Francisco Saturday morning, a fire dispatcher said.
