Firefighters Contain 10-Acre Wildfire Near Gilroy
Firefighters have contained a 10-acre wind-driven fire in the San Martin area of southern Santa Clara County Monday afternoon.
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Firefighters have contained a 10-acre wind-driven fire in the San Martin area of southern Santa Clara County Monday afternoon.
The drought may have California on heightened fire alert, but Eastern Contra Costa County will face the season with two fewer stations after closures Monday.
At least two people were displaced in a small house fire in East Oakland early Monday morning after a short in the home's electrical system.
Latent fire sparked by lightning caused a 66-acre wildfire in Monterey County that was 90 percent contained Sunday evening, a spokesperson for Cal Fire said.
A wildfire in a remote area near the town of Bolinas burned 3 1/2 acres Sunday before being fully contained by mid-morning, the Marin County Fire Department reported.
Firefighters found one home in flames when they arrived and the flames spread to the attic of a second home.
Firefighters responded at 11 p.m. Friday to a fire at a two-story residence on Vista Grande Ave., in Daly City. The fire spread to two homes on both sides of the residence.
Warning letters have gone out to residents in Contra Costa County with a vegetation abatement deadline of May 31st as the fire season approaches, but firefighters say it's the drought that will make their job even tougher this year.
Prosecutors said Friday that two key witnesses have unexpectedly died since the indictment was handed down last year against Matthew Emerald.
Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White says she is considering applying for the top job in London.
A two-alarm fire damaged a popular restaurant and bar near San Francisco's Presidio Wednesday morning.
Three houses are burning in San Francisco's Excelsior neighborhood Tuesday evening, a fire spokeswoman said.
A Contra Costa County fire protection district is preparing to close two stations and make service cuts following the failure of a measure that would have raised more than $4 million a year for the next five years, officials said Tuesday.
Starting May 1, Cal Fire will require residents in Bay Area and neighboring fire units to obtain a burn permit for any outdoor open burning in rural, unincorporated areas.
One person was transported to the hospital as a result of an apartment fire Sunday afternoon in Concord, a fire dispatcher said.
A person was killed Friday morning in a fire at an abandoned chemical refinery site in East Palo Alto, firefighters said.
Neighbors tried to save a person who was killed in a home fire in Mountain View Thursday morning.
Firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze at an apartment complex in Martinez Wednesday morning.
Contra Costa Fire Protection District officials said they got the initial call around 3:30 a.m. of a fire at a home on the 600 block of La Casa Via.
One person suffered minor burns and eight residents were displaced in a three-alarm apartment fire in Saratoga Sunday morning.
San Francisco firefighters were attempting to put down a one alarm fire at Mission St. and Beale St. in the South Of Market area Friday morning.
Fire rips through a San Jose restaurant causing major damage and heartbreak.
Fire crews are battling a one-alarm grass fire off of Interstate Highway 80 in Vallejo Sunday afternoon, according to a fire official.
A fire that sparked in the oven of a Santa Rosa eatery on Saturday afternoon fire caused an estimated $12,000 in damage to the building and its contents, a fire official said Sunday.
Firefighters lowered a knotted rope into the hole and looped it around the puppy's legs and torso and pulled him to safety.
