Crews Battle 2-Acre Brush Fire At Homeless Encampment In Oakland
Firefighters were investigating a brush fire at a homeless encampment, in West Oakland.
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Firefighters were investigating a brush fire at a homeless encampment, in West Oakland.
The town of Angwin is situated in the forests of northern Napa County. The 3,000 residents here have been evacuated so many times that some are beginning to question if they should be living here at all.
Longtime autism rights activist Feda Almaliti, 43, who fought "boldly and fiercely" for treatment for her autistic son Muhammed, died after she ran back into their burning home to try and rescue him Saturday morning.
A house fire that occurred early Saturday morning in Fremont's Sundale neighborhood claimed two lives, according to the Alameda County Coroner's Office.
A wildfire that broke out in heavy timber Wednesday afternoon near the unincorporated community of Zayante in Santa Cruz County was contained after burning a quarter of an acre.
A portion of Highway 116 east of Petaluma in Sonoma County is closed Tuesday evening following a solo-vehicle crash and brush fire, officials said.
Crews have contained a four-alarm vegetation fire broke out in the Belmont hills on Monday afternoon, threatening several homes and the evacuation order has been lifted.
Alameda County Fire officials on Wednesday said one person suffered "significant burn injuries" in an RV fire in San Leandro Tuesday night.
Firefighters battled a smoky, four-alarm fire burning among the restaurants and markets in a densely-populated neighborhood in Oakland's Chinatown district Wednesday morning.
The massive August Complex Fire -- the largest wildfire outbreak in state history at 794,801 acres and still growing Tuesday -- has advanced toward Northern California's 'Emerald Triangle' of legal and illegal marijuana grows.
Police in Novato have arrested a man suspected of setting a string of fires, after officers allegedly spotted him starting a fire near the Novato creek area, on Monday
One person was rescued and taken to the hospital after a fire broke out at the Rankin Aquatic Center in Martinez on Saturday morning.
The Hayward Fire Department is investigating the cause of a two-alarm fire Monday that burned four storefronts at the corner of Foothill Boulevard and A Street.
A leaking gas meter ignited a structure fire at a residence in Los Altos early Monday morning, forcing the evacuation of several homes.
The San Francisco medical examiner on Friday identified a woman who died during a house fire earlier this August in the city's Bayview neighborhood.
Firefighters in Oakland have contained a four-alarm fire that started burning in brush alongside westbound I-580 near the Keller Avenue exit early Wednesday evening.
A wildfire that started Tuesday night in a remote part of the Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County has grown to approximately 1,100 acres, according to fire officials.
Firefighters in Marin County on Tuesday were responding to a growing wildfire burning in the Point Reyes National Seashore, according to officials.
Firefighters extinguished a fire that erupted below a BART track overpass Tuesday morning and shutting down service on the San Leandro and Dublin/Pleasanton lines, officials said.
Monday night, CalFire consolidated the Marsh Fire with other fires burning in the area and renamed them the Lightning Complex Fires. Residents in Sunol were still under an evacuation warning.
A head-on collision on eastbound Highway 92 late Saturday night involving three vehicles, one a San Mateo County bus, hospitalized multiple patients and caused a one-acre brush fire, according to authorities.
Fire crews have stopped the forward progress of a vehicle and brush fire that was burning along Highway 17 in Los Gatos, but southbound lanes remain closed according to authorities.
Police have arrested a woman suspected of setting fire to a trash bin behind a synagogue, in Berkeley.
A San Francisco firefighter suffered a non-life threatening injury early Sunday morning when a 2-alarm fire erupted inside a Hayes Valley apartment building.
Firefighters in the South Bay have stopped the forward progress of a brush fire burning in Morgan Hill Friday afternoon, according to Calfire authorities.
