Red Flag Warning: No Relief From Fire Risk As Chance Of Thunderstorms Moves Toward Bay Area
Seasonal temperatures and a chance of showers Thursday won't necessarily mean relief for tired firefighters as the chance of thunderstorms looms overnight.
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Seasonal temperatures and a chance of showers Thursday won't necessarily mean relief for tired firefighters as the chance of thunderstorms looms overnight.
Backed by important firefighting resources, crews are gaining ground against the massive Rocky Fire that has destroyed numerous buildings and driven thousands of people from their homes, officials said.
A three-alarm fire that ripped through an apartment complex in Antioch Wednesday morning displaced 29 residents, an official with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District said.
A 108-year-old building in San Francisco's Mission District badly damaged by a fire that took the life of one man could sell for $20 million.
Thousands of firefighters battling the Rocky Fire were aided by cooler temperatures and higher humidity.
As firefighters and equipment from outside the state poured in to battle the blaze burning 10 miles from Clear Lake, more than 13,000 people were required or urged to leave their homes, vacation cabins and campsites in the latest fire-prone region to find itself under siege.
President Barack Obama is asking his aides to stay in close touch with California's governor and other local officials as firefighters tackle the Rocky Fire.
The Hayward fire chief was suspended but allowed to continue with his job after a number of behavioral issues that include drinking while on call.
Cooler, wetter weather helped crews make inroads Monday against a massive wildfire north of San Francisco that tore through two dozen homes, threatened thousands more and forced 12,000 people to flee the flames.
The Rocky Fire tripled in size over the weekend to 60,000 acres, generating its own winds that spread the flames at an unprecedented rate.
Cal Fire was using their 'heli-torch' to light backfires in terrain so rugged it couldn't be reached by foot to keep the Rocky Fire from burning a roadway as the blaze burned in three Northern Bay Area counties.
Gov. Jerry Brown is declaring a state of emergency throughout California as wildfires rage in the parched state.
The Rocky Fire continued to grow Thursday, scorching more than 10,000 acres of rugged terrain in Lake County, about 100 miles northeast of San Francisco.
A fast-moving fire on Brannan Island in the Delta has damaged at least half a dozen homes Thursday.
A firefighter received a minor injury battling a four-alarm grass fire in Moraga Thursday afternoon, according to officials with the Moraga-Orinda Fire Protection District.
The California National Guard is sending in a fleet of helicopters to back up firefighters battling flames raging across the northern half of the state.
Crews battling the toughest of several wildfires burning across the state held their ground, keeping a blaze east of California's Napa Valley from jumping any more containment lines, fire officials said.
A brush fire that broke out in Lake County on Wednesday afternoon has scorched 8,000 acres overnight, prompting the evacuations of several hundred people.
The Wragg Fire in Wildhorse Canyon near Napa Valley has now charred more than 11 square miles after it jumped a containment line in rugged, steeped terrain that was baking in triple digit temperatures.
An 8-acre brush fire briefly threatened a home in Lafayette early Wednesday morning, according to a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District fire marshal.
There has been a flare-up of the Wragg Fire in Solano County that has prompted new mandatory evacuations and road closures Tuesday afternoon, a Cal Fire spokeswoman said.
Cal Fire is working with U.S. military firefighters to extinguish a brush fire on the Camp Parks Reserve Forces Training Area in Dublin near the Santa Rita Jail.
Authorities say they suspect a man of starting a grassland fire near Sacramento that forced people from their homes and destroyed power lines.
A fire burned 37 acres in windy conditions in Bay Point before being contained Monday afternoon, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District officials said.
Campgrounds were evacuated near a Central California wildfire that has chewed through more than 2 square miles of dry timber in Sierra National Forest, one of several blazes burning across the state on Monday.
