Man Rescued From Steep Cliff At Lands End
A man was rescued from the cliffs at Lands End Sunday morning, after spending the night injured and screaming for help.
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A man was rescued from the cliffs at Lands End Sunday morning, after spending the night injured and screaming for help.
Firefighters controlled a two-alarm fire that damaged a house in northeast San Jose Friday afternoon, a fire captain said.
California regulators will consider whether Pacific Gas and Electric Co. should face penalties in connection with its record-keeping in the run-up to the San Bruno pipeline explosion.
An investigation into a fire that destroyed a lumberyard in Walnut Creek last March has been completed, but the cause remains undetermined.
Passing motorists who stopped to help a driver who had crashed into a tree and become trapped in her burning car in Orinda Wednesday afternoon put out the fire and likely saved the victim's life, a spokesman for the Moraga-Orinda Fire District said.
There is only one fire hydrant on the Dumbarton Bridge, a fact that is not lost on one local fire chief.
Firefighters struggled Tuesday night to extinguish a fire at a two-story condominium building in San Jose that was fueled by an active gas leak, a fire captain said.
All eastbound lanes and two westbound lanes of the Dumbarton Bridge were blocked Tuesday morning because of a crash involving a big-rig.
Napa firefighters controlled a chimney fire at a home near Earl and Behrens streets on Sunday night, a fire department spokesman said.
A power line fell down across a road and caught fire near Oakland Saturday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.
An arson fire that scorched a high school bathroom in San Jose on Wednesday caused an estimated $5,000 in damage, a fire department spokeswoman said.
Fourteen veterans were displaced from a group home in East Palo Alto Monday night in a two-alarm fire that forced some to jump from second-story windows, the Menlo Park fire chief said.
A fire destroyed an apartment containing a small medical marijuana grow and damaged three adjacent units Monday morning, Santa Rosa Fire Department Battalion Chief Mark Basque said.
Hotel guests were evacuated after a blaze erupted at an inn in Rohnert Park Wednesday afternoon, according to the Rohnert Park Police and Fire Services.
A Napa County Jail inmate who lit himself on fire in his cell Wednesday night faced a state prison sentence next week for assault with a deadly weapon, a Napa County sheriff's captain said Thursday afternoon.
A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury has found a Palo Alto hookah bar owner guilty of murder for killing his girlfriend and setting her body on fire in October 2009.
A Napa County Jail inmate suffered second- and third-degree burns Wednesday night when he set himself ablaze in a cell, fire and sheriff's officials said.
A cruise ship that was brought to San Francisco for repairs after catching fire during a voyage in November is in good shape and will depart for its next Mexican cruise on Friday, a port official said Wednesday.
Several small brush fires along Interstate Highway 280 in San Bruno caused the closure of two southbound lanes late Wednesday morning, a California Highway Patrol officer said.
Firefighters near San Francisco's Castro district were able to extinguish a two-alarm fire Monday morning before there were any injuries.
A electrical fire burned at a water district pumping station in Walnut Creek Monday, exploding at least one electrical transformer and creating a large plume of fire and smoke.
San Francisco's fire chief is calling on residents of the city's Castro District to be on "heightened alert" after a string of fires hit the area this week.
San Francisco police and fire investigators are looking into another suspicious fire in the city's Castro District Friday morning, the fourth in the area in the past two days.
Power was restored Friday morning to a housing complex in San Jose following a two-alarm fire that caused the evacuation of more than 200 people earlier in the morning.
The city wants to change mandatory staffing levels and merge Station 2 and Station 5 to cut costs and improve efficiency.
