30-Acre Brush Fire Burning Near Danville Elementary School
Firefighters are working to put out a grass fire burning in Danville Tuesday afternoon, Cal Fire officials said.
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Firefighters are working to put out a grass fire burning in Danville Tuesday afternoon, Cal Fire officials said.
Authorities say 15 dogs died in a fire at a Central California boarding facility that cares for pets while their owners are away on vacation.
A car fire ignited a fast-spreading vegetation fire Monday morning that could be threatening several homes near Vacaville.
Authorities briefly grounded a U.S. Forest Service reconnaissance plane flying over a series of small wildfires near Redding after a drone flew to close to the scene.
Because of the 4-year drought, fire season is now 24/7, 12 months a year. Here are helpful tips and reminders for all of us.
The holiday weekend is expected to be a busy one for many California state parks, and officials are reminding people to be safe outdoors.
An LGBTQ-themed mural that went up in San Francisco's Mission District earlier this month was defaced Monday night for a third time, when it was set on fire by an unknown arsonist.
A wildfire burning near a historic mission in a rural area of Lompoc has prompted authorities to order the evacuation of approximately 1,200 people.
San Francisco firefighters were looking for two people reported possibly in a lower-rear unit in a residential fire at 1100 Plymouth Ave. in the city's Ingleside neighborhood Monday morning.
A wildfire near San Jose Sunday afternoon has so far consumed roughly 81 acres of vegetation and was still burning Sunday evening, a Cal Fire official said.
PG&E was working to restore power to customers in Walnut Creek Thursday evening after downed lines caused an outage that shut down BART service for around two hours and affected as many as 3,000 customers.
Neighbors are relieved to return home Thursday after firefighters contained a massive brush fire that backed right up to their houses near Contra Loma Regional Park.
A two-alarm fire in San Jose Thursday morning injured one adult and two children, all burn victims, according to fire officials.
Cal Fire has suspended all permits for outdoor residential burning starting Monday in areas of Santa Clara, Alameda and Contra Costa counties that are not served by a city or county fire department, Cal Fire officials said Thursday
Two hikers were brought to safety as a growing wildfire in Contra Costa County burned out of control Wednesday.
A 500-acre wildfire burning in the Contra Loma Regional Park area of Antioch Wednesday afternoon forced the mandatory evacuations of dozens of homes, as fire crews battled intense heat and 20 mph winds whipping over the drought-parched grassland.
No buildings have been damaged, but the mountain town of Markleeville remained on standby Wednesday for possible evacuations, according to the Bureau of Land Management. Several campgrounds have been evacuated, and two highways have been closed.
A man was critically burned from a house fire in Vallejo early Tuesday morning that reportedly started while he was working on his car.
Evacuations are underway in the area of Markleeville, about 30 miles south of Lake Tahoe after a wildfire broke out over the weekend and exploded to first 6,500 acres, and then 9,500 acres by Monday afternoon.
Firefighters are working to extinguish a two-alarm fire Sunday evening in San Jose, according to the San Jose Fire Department.
With about two weeks left until the Fourth of July holiday, San Jose city leaders have a plan that would expand a crackdown on illegal fireworks, which has become a growing concern for residents.
At least one person has been killed in a fire at a Union City apartment complex Thursday afternoon, according to fire officials.
Since the Bay Area has a history of celebrating big sports wins in a reckless way, many were a little worried at the idea of exactly what would happen in Oakland after the big win.
Workers constructing the BART extension into Antioch accidentally sparked a grass fire Wednesday afternoon that burned roughly 7 acres of vegetation, a fire official said.
A wildfire sparked by a turkey vulture that caught fire after shorting out two power lines according to a witness burned parts of an RV and two properties in Martinez Tuesday morning, causing an estimated $80,000 in damage, a fire official said.
