Fire Danger: Chief Says Current Station Can't Handle Menlo Park Development
Menlo Park firefighters say a plan to build more than 4,000 homes in the Bell Haven neighborhood is unsafe.
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Menlo Park firefighters say a plan to build more than 4,000 homes in the Bell Haven neighborhood is unsafe.
Two families were displaced by a fire that burned two homes in San Lorenzo Sunday afternoon, Alameda County fire officials said.
Firefighters responded to a fire at a two-story home Sunday afternoon in Daly City.
A burning just east of San Jose in Santa Clara County has charred 124 acres.
California crews contended with hotter temperatures and lower humidity Thursday near scenic Big Sur where a wildfire has destroyed 34 homes and killed a bulldozer driver working to contain the massive blaze.
The three-alarm 100-acre Hastings Fire in Solano County is out and the scene was cleared and secured this afternoon, a county fire dispatcher said.
Two minors were taken into custody in Martinez Tuesday afternoon after a fire sparked by fireworks burned roughly two acres near some homes, a fire captain said.
A two-alarm fire ignited in the kitchen at the rear of a San Jose supermarket early Tuesday, sending 10 people scrambling for safety and heavily damaging the building.
A grass and brush fire Sunday evening in unincorporated Contra Costa County near Hercules has burned about 45 acres and is 50 percent contained, a Cal Fire Battalion Chief said.
A four-alarm fire that threatened homes and forces mandatory evacuations in the Grandview Drive area of Vacaville Friday afternoon has been contained, according to the Vacaville Police Department.
Alameda County firefighters say a new fire at the Altamont Landfill is producing a large amount of smoke and could keep burning for a couple days.
Days after an electrical fire led to even greater sprinkler water damage at a low-income apartment building, residents remain stranded.
Photographers in Southern California sprang into action when they saw a brush fire.
San Francisco Supervisor David Campos called for a study to examine how to bring fire sprinklers to more buildings in the city.
Fire investigators said a four-alarm fire that destroyed the Millbrae Community Center Thursday morning appears to be suspicious in nature.
Firefighters believe a two-alarm fire that burned a five-story building in downtown San Rafael this morning started in the kitchen of a restaurant located inside the building.
Evacuations are under way this afternoon at a motor home park in Windsor after firefighters started fighting a fire and discovered what appeared to be an explosive device, a spokeswoman with the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said.
A large trash pile ignited into flames early Monday at a San Jose recycling plant, but was brought under control before it could cause any major damage.
No one was injured when a pile of discarded items ignited and started a fire inside a San Rafael warehouse Saturday evening, according to fire officials.
A four-alarm fire that started in an industrial area of Newark Friday afternoon was under control Friday night and no injuries have been reported
CHP and fire units are responding to a report of a big rig that is burning on I-880 in Emeryville near the I-80 connector Friday afternoon.
The male occupant of a vehicle died after crashing into a home and sparking a fire in San Francisco's Sea Cliff neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said.
More than 500,000 hoverboards are being recalled after dozens of reports of fires and spewing smoke.
A massive fire erupted at a construction site early Wednesday and then spread to a nearby townhouse complex before it was finally contained, authorities said.
A 40-acre grassland and pasture fire in unincorporated Solano County near Vacaville was controlled around 3 p.m., Vacaville Fire Protection District Deputy Chief Doug Rogers said.
