Gas Leak During Berkeley House Fire Cause Explosions
An explosive fire gutted a two-story duplex in North Berkeley overnight Thursday.
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An explosive fire gutted a two-story duplex in North Berkeley overnight Thursday.
A firefighter was injured Wednesday night as crews battled a three-alarm blaze in San Francisco's Mission District, a fire captain said.
Fire investigators are continuing to look into the cause of a three-alarm fire that injured 22 people and caused more than $1 million in damage at a residential hotel in San Francisco's Tenderloin.
Firefighters gained the upper hand on a house fire near Highland Avenue and South 59th Street in Richmond Wednesday afternoon.
Firefighters battled a three-alarm fire in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood on Tuesday night that injured at least 22 people.
Survivors of a deadly gas pipeline explosion that ravaged a San Bruno neighborhood testified before California regulators on Tuesday night.
The Obama administration will push legislation designed to overhaul and upgrade America's aging oil and gas pipeline network in response to the deadly San Bruno blast.
Six people escaped from a Redwood City home that caught fire early Monday morning while the family was sleeping, a fire battalion chief said.
Customers will have to find burgers and fries at another McDonald's in San Jose following a kitchen fire that caused about $100,000 in damage to one of the franchise's locations Saturday afternoon.
A man died in a duplex fire in eastern Oakland on Thursday evening, according the fire department and Alameda County coroner's bureau.
Fire crews Thursday broke down the door to a burning home in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood and rescued a man who was sleeping when the blaze started in the kitchen.
A San Jose city councilman has dared to touch the so-called "third rail" of local politics. City Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio is calling for a reduction in firefighter staffing levels in favor of more police officers.
A fire destroyed a houseboat and created a brief spectacle in Alameda today but didn't cause any injuries, a fire official said.
San Francisco firefighters battled two one-alarm fires that broke out in the city Wednesday morning.
Fire crews were on the scene after an explosion caused a fire at an East Bay oil refinery.
A woman and her dog escaped a fire that damaged a mobile home in Fremont on Saturday afternoon, according to the Fremont Fire Department.
A Northern California woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she tried to kill her bedridden son by setting the Willits house she was about to lose to foreclosure on fire.
Menlo Park firefighters suspect arson at one of their own properties Friday morning, Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said.
The man accused of setting a fire that caused more than $50 million in damage to the Westfield Roseville Galleria entered a guilty plea in federal court Tuesday morning.
A fire that displaced five people from a home in San Francisco's Mission District on Monday night was sparked by a lamp that was sitting too close to a window drape, a fire department spokeswoman said Tuesday.
A San Francisco woman owes her life to two men who pulled her out of her burning SUV in Napa County on Saturday, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said Monday.
Firefighters rescued five dogs from a burning house in San Jose Sunday evening, a dispatcher said.
Firefighters had to rescue an elderly man confined to a wheelchair after a fire broke out in the kitchen of his Pittsburg home.
Firefighters have extinguished a two-alarm kitchen fire that broke out inside of a restaurant in a San Jose strip mall Thursday morning, a San Jose fire captain said.
Two firefighters were hurt Tuesday night while extinguishing a chimney fire at a home in Alamo, San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District officials said Wednesday.
