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While investigators searched for a cause to a 4-alarm blaze that erupted in North Beach over the weekend, the war of words over how the San Francisco Fire Department responded to the fire heated up on Monday.
Fire officials in San Francisco on Sunday were responding to criticism from SF Supervisor Aaron Peskin about the approach crews used during a huge four-alarm fire in North Beach the night before.
Several San Francisco residents remained displaced Sunday as fire authorities continued investigating the cause of a massive building blaze that broke out in a historic neighborhood during the thick of St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
A massive 4-alarm fire erupted in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood Saturday night sending residents, restaurant customers and St. Patrick's Day revelers into to street to watch the firefight.
A massive 4-alarm fire erupted in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood Saturday night sending residents, restaurant customers and St. Patrick's Day revelers into to street to watch the firefight.
A fire burning underneath the Bay Bridge just west of Treasure Island snarled eastbound traffic Tuesday afternoon as the San Francisco Fire Department worked to douse the flames.
Firefighters were able to put out a three-alarm structure fire at an apartment complex in Fremont Thursday that displaced up to 34 residents, according to fire officials.
A large fire has destroyed a vacant landmark building in East Oakland Friday; the third fire at the site in a year.
A 2-alarm fire quickly spread inside a three-story apartment house in San Francisco's Castro District Friday, sending flames skyward and a thick plume of smoke billowing over the neighborhood.
A one-alarm fire quickly consumed a Walnut Creek house early Tuesday, forcing four residents to flee the flames.
A firefighter was injured early Sunday battling a two-alarm fire that through a Martinez townhouse complex, heavily damaging four homes.
A vehicle fire inside a carport spread to a commercial building early Sunday, triggering a 3-alarm blaze that damaged the structure and two nearby buildings.
A Southern California airport official says one of four emergency slides failed to deploy during a fire on a Southwest Airlines plane but the malfunction did not hinder the evacuation.
A train heading south struck a vehicle on train tracks in Palo Alto Monday evening, however, no one was injured during the incident.
A male victim died in a fire Monday morning at a homeless encampment near Interstate 980 in Oakland, a fire battalion chief said.
A mansion in one of Los Angeles' most exclusive neighborhoods was engulfed in flames Thursday evening.
Two firefighters have been hospitalized for minor injuries they suffered while battling a two-alarm structure fire at a large condominium complex in Fremont's Warm Springs district Tuesday afternoon, a fire spokeswoman said.
Sims Metal Management was issued a public nuisance violation and an illegal open burning violation after a fire Jan. 30 at its scrap metal recycling yard in Richmond.
The fire at a Richmond scrap metal yard that triggered an overnight shelter in place for several neighborhoods earlier this week, released benzene into the air.
Toll takers were back to work at the busy Richmond San Rafael Bridge early Wednesday as the region began to recover from an overnight shelter in place ordered after black clouds billowed skyward from a scrap metal yard fire.
A fire at a Richmond scrap metal yard producing a large cloud of smoke Tuesday evening has led to an expanded shelter-in-place order, according to authorities.
A fire swept through a hospital for the elderly in southeastern South Korea, killing nearly 40 people and injuring dozens in one of the country's deadliest fires.
A three-alarm fire damaged multiple businesses in San Francisco's West Portal neighborhood late Tuesday night, fire officials said.
A woman walking down an alley in San Francisco's Mission District discovered a man on fire, raced to a nearby cafe for a bucket of water and then helped put out the flames.
A woman died in a fire in a condominium building Saturday morning in Martinez.
