Firefighter Hurt In San Jose Mobile Home Fire; 10 Displaced
A blaze at a mobile home in San Jose Tuesday morning left 10 people displaced and a firefighter with second-degree burns to his face, a fire captain said.
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A blaze at a mobile home in San Jose Tuesday morning left 10 people displaced and a firefighter with second-degree burns to his face, a fire captain said.
One of the three people who were seriously injured in an apparently drug-related explosion at an apartment in Livermore last Saturday has died, police said Friday.
Three people were displaced in East Oakland Wednesday evening after a resident trying to destroy weeds in his yard caught his home on fire.
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Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire that destroyed an East Oakland on Wednesday evening.
One person was taken to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation after a fire that caused about $40,000 in damage to a home in Oakland on Tuesday night, fire officials said.
Firefighters from across the East Bay responded to a four-alarm fire at an apartment building in San Leandro Tuesday afternoon that burned for almost an hour.
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Two men and a woman were severely burned by an explosion at a Livermore apartment building Saturday evening, according to the fire department.
Two portable toilets were set on fire within minutes of each other in San Francisco's Castro District early Sunday morning, a crime that has occurred dozens of times in recent years.
Fire damaged the Golden Gate Transit offices in San Rafael early Sunday morning, fire officials reported.
Firefighters worked quickly in hopes of containing a three-alarm fire in San Francisco's Mission District Friday evening.
Several residents in the area were advised to evacuate as a precaution but no mandatory evacuations were issued.
The computer-aided dispatch system utilized by San Francisco's police and fire departments went down unexpectedly on Thursday.
The financially-strapped Contra Costa Fire Protection District has received a major grant from a federal agency.
It could be more cuts for the cash-strapped San Jose Fire Department this summer, with the threat of rolling brownouts looming.
A fire that broke out in an Oakley home late Sunday night caused an estimated $250,000 in damage, but no injuries were reported, East Contra Costa County Fire Protection District Chief Hugh Henderson said Monday.
Firefighters were at the scene of a three-alarm house fire near San Jose State University, a fire spokesman said.
San Rafael fire officials are investigating the cause of a kitchen fire that damaged a home in an unincorporated area near the city Sunday morning.
A one-alarm structure fire that burned one person and displaced six others from their home was under control within a half-hour late Saturday night, a dispatcher at the Oakland Fire Department said.
An elementary school girl accidentally started a fire that caused $40,000 worth of damage this morning when she was playing with a lighter next to some clothes.
A family of five is lucky to be alive Saturday morning after escaping a dangerous, fast-burning fire at their duplex in San Lorenzo, Alameda County fire officials said.
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The fire damaged four buildings, and the Park Hotel's was the most severe with about $2.5 million worth of the property destroyed.
A shelter-in-place order was lifted late Thursday morning for a Santa Rosa neighborhood where a fire burned a pile of debris that included a leaking gas cylinder, officials said.
