Officials close East Bay park spaces over fire danger from heat
Officials with the East Bay Regional Parks District have closed dozens of park spaces during the holiday weekend due to increased fire danger from forecast heat.
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Officials with the East Bay Regional Parks District have closed dozens of park spaces during the holiday weekend due to increased fire danger from forecast heat.
Fire crews from Cal Fire contained a vegetation fire in Alameda County early Saturday morning.
Fire crews were able to contain a structure fire in an unincorporated area of Pacifica Friday afternoon, according to authorities.
A three-fire that broke out at an apartment building on Haight Street in San Francisco was contained late Wednesday afternoon, firefighters said.
A three-alarm fire at an apartment complex north of San Francisco's Panhandle displaced at least 13 people Tuesday. More than 100 firefighters were called to the scene. Sara Donchey reports. (8/23/22)
Fire crews battled a 3-alarm blaze on the upper floors of an apartment building near Alamo Square in San Francisco Tuesday.
Authorities in Oakland confirmed that nine people were displaced due to a fire at a Victorian-style home Sunday morning that damaged multiple apartment units.
Two people were hospitalized following a fire at a home in Pacifica on Thursday afternoon, according to the North County Fire Authority.
Fire crews were to remain on the clock throughout the night to keep an eye on the possibility of dry lightning.
A fire burned at a home in San Francisco's Excelsior District Tuesday afternoon, the fire department said.
A pair of brush fires caused a power outage affecting thousands of residents in the city of Bisbane, Monday night, according police.
Authorities said they believe someone deliberately sparked a fire inside a Target store in Emeryville earlier this week.
Crews in Sonoma County were able to extinguish a garbage fire in Windsor Tuesday after a truck had to dump its burning load by a park.
San Jose staple Holder's Country Inn was recently destroyed in a major fire, but that hasn't deterred the staff and management from dusting themselves off and getting back to work.
A three-alarm vegetation fire threatened structures on a hillside in Martinez Thursday afternoon.
Parts of Highway 12 near Fairfield were shut down Tuesday while fire crews battled a 2-alarm wildfire near Beck Avenue, according to fire officials.
Firefighters in the South Bay were able to contain a fire early Thursday evening that severely damaged an unoccupied home in San Jose.
Fire swept through Holder's Country Inn coffee shop in San Jose early Wednesday morning, virtually destroying the building.
Contra Costa Fire is reporting a single-alarm structure fire in Antioch which one person has died, the agency said at 9 p.m. on Monday.
Crews in the East Bay are at the scene of a fire that ignited at a vacant warehouse at the old Alameda Air Station Monday afternoon, according to authorities.
Crews in the South Bay were able to stop the forward progress of a brush fire in an unincorporated area of Morgan Hill that threatened structures Sunday afternoon.
Neighbors near an abandoned golf course in Pittsburg are tired of constant fires in their backyards. Authorities say at least one fire started in a homeless encampment.
The scorching temperatures have reached as far north as Britain, where its weather agency has issued its first-ever "red warning" of extreme heat.
As the Bay Area moves further into fire season, there's a growing sense of urgency when it comes to making property as safe as possible.
Fire crews are responding to a vegetation fire burning in Richmond Friday afternoon near Point Pinole Regional Shoreline, according to authorities.
