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California Highway Patrol aircraft have rescued a total of 44 people, as well as five dogs and a cat, while responding to the North Bay fires that have killed at least nine people and destroyed more than 1,500 structures.
An intense two-alarm fire early Friday destroyed a Redwood City home and sent a family fleeing for safety.
An intense fire roared through a mobile home in San Leandro early Thursday, killing the couple who lived there.
Firefighters have contained a group of three grass fire that started late Wednesday morning in San Francisco's McLaren Park, authorities said.
Marin County is one the few places in the Bay Area still using "fire lookouts" on days with high fire danger.
A fast-moving wildfire near the Riverside (91) Freeway on the border of Orange and Riverside counties quickly grew to 2,000 acres.
A fire at a San Jose auto repair and detail shop Monday afternoon destroyed six vehicles, a fire spokesman said.
A truck burst into a fireball on an Oakland street early Friday, igniting nearby brushes before firefighters and a neighbor with a garden hose were able to bring in under control.
Residents have been displaced and an orange cat has gone missing in the wake of a fire near Lake Merced Park in San Francisco Friday morning, where crews are still investigating the scene of a two-alarm structure fire at a 13-story building.
A man who was killed in a fire at a four-story apartment complex in Oakland early Wednesday morning was identified by the affordable housing nonprofit that operates it as 75-year-old Mohammad Alikhani.
A suspicious fire early Monday morning in Gilroy damaged a Salvation Army retail store and distribution warehouse and burned a trailer full of donated goods.
One person was injured and four others forced from their homes when a one-alarm fire erupted in a San Leandro apartment complex early Wednesday.
Over 1,200 lightning strikes were recorded in the Bay Area on Monday evening during the region's unusual rash of thunderstorms.
Authorities in the East Bay are investigating a series of recent suspicious fires including one early Monday morning at an Antioch church.
A fire battalion chief died in the line of duty Sunday morning, San Francisco fire officials announced.
A wildfire burning out of control about 16 miles east of Oroville has forced some evacuations Tuesday evening.
At least seven people were displaced Monday night after a fire broke out at a home in San Francisco's Merced Heights neighborhood.
Firefighters rescued an unconscious elderly woman early Monday as flames engulfed her Sacramento Street apartment.
An irate man was fatally shot early Thursday after he barricaded himself in a home, set the residence on fire and then allegedly approached Livermore police officers carrying a shot gun,
The cause of a four-alarm fire last month at a construction site in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood remains unknown, officials with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said.
A man suffered significant burns and trauma after he fell from a PG&E transmission tower Tuesday in Santa Rosa, according to Santa Rosa fire officials.
Fire officials in Berkeley on Sunday reported that one person was injured in a two-alarm fire at a three-story apartment building.
Police in Dubai reopened the streets around one of the world's tallest residential skyscrapers after firefighters put out a blaze that erupted early Friday in the high-rise.
More than a dozen vehicles were destroyed when a fire broke out at a carport next to an apartment complex in Campbell early Friday morning.
Firefighters in Oakland are at the scene of a fire burning a vacant Victorian home on the 1700 block of 19th Street Thursday evening, according to authorities.
