San Francisco Crews Contain 8 Acre Fire In McLaren Park; Fireworks Possible Cause
Crews in San Francisco were able to contain a fire that consumed eight acres in McLaren Park that may have been started by fireworks early Monday evening.
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Crews in San Francisco were able to contain a fire that consumed eight acres in McLaren Park that may have been started by fireworks early Monday evening.
A man arrested last Thursday in connection with setting fires in Fremont had been arrested on suspicion of similar crimes and released from custody just days earlier, according to police.
A two-alarm vegetation fire prompted the closure of a portion of Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains for over two hours, authorities said Tuesday.
Fire ripped through multiple buildings in Stinson Beach Tuesday morning following an explosion in the downtown area of the city.
A 39-year-old transient was arrested early Sunday morning after witnesses told Fremont police they saw him start three fires on Mowry Avenue.
Police detained a 61-year-old man Saturday morning in connection with six brush fires set overnight in Corte Madera and Larkspur.
Fire crews in Alameda County were to stop the growth of a brush fire on Vallecitos Road in Sunol early Friday evening at about four acres, according to authorities.
City officials including Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced plans for a financial relief package to help San Francisco crabbers impacted by the massive fire at Pier 45 last month.
Firefighters in the unincorporated Alameda County community of San Lorenzo were able to put out the fire burning at the historic Lorenzo Theater Friday evening, but not before the structure was seriously damaged.
A two-alarm brushfire that burned 117 acres and threatened 12 houses Friday evening has been contained, the Fairfield fire department said.
A wind-whipped fire that destroyed several homes and killed a number of animals in Suisun City on Wednesday afternoon has now been determined to be arson. Fire investigators said they have identified the suspects and police are now searching for them.
A major vegetation fire burning Wednesday evening in Suisun City has damaged or destroyed eleven homes and prompted evacuations, according to authorities.
A grass fire in Pinole off Appian Way threatened houses Tuesday night before fire crews were able to contain the fire.
Firefighters were at the scene of a brush fire Friday burning near San Jose Mineta International Airport.
A family's pet dog has died and their home destroyed in an early Friday morning fire that roared through both floors of the two-story house, authorities said.
An explosion and fire at a home in Rohnert Park on Wednesday morning was apparently caused by a fuel leak underneath a recently restored Ford Model T vehicle inside the garage, according to the city's Department of Public Safety.
Flames erupted inside a San Jose garage late Tuesday night, threatening a neighboring home and sending five residents fleeing for safety, authorities said.
The massive weekend fire that tore through a warehouse at Pier 45 in Fisherman's Wharf devastated many of the businesses that provide San Francisco with its seafood.
Firefighters continued to pour hundreds of gallons of water Tuesday on three hot spots amid the the wreckage left behind by a Fisherman's Wharf 4-alarm inferno that ravaged a portion of San Francisco's Pier 45 and dealt a serious financial blow to the local commercial crab fleet.
Battling soaring temperatures and towering flames, firefighters fought a 3-alarm blaze Tuesday that erupted among pile of plastic pallets at a Stockton tomato processing plant.
Newly-released drone footage of the aftermath of a warehouse fire in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf shows a facility completely gutted by the flames that lit up the city's waterfront over the weekend.
Crews have responded to a grass fire that broke out at a recycling facility in Milpitas on Monday afternoon.
Three people were hospitalized Saturday night for treatment of smoke inhalation following a two-alarm fire in Antioch that damaged two houses and a garage, the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District said.
A fire caused major damage to a home in Los Altos Hills early Thursday morning.
A massive two-alarm fire swept through a San Jose salvage yard late Tuesday, burning old cars, the building and auto dismantling equipment before firefighters brought it under control.
