Hundreds Return To Eastern Sierra Towns Charred By Wildfire
More than 200 people from two communities ravaged by a wildfire in the Eastern Sierra are now being allowed back in.
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More than 200 people from two communities ravaged by a wildfire in the Eastern Sierra are now being allowed back in.
Firefighters extinguished a fire late Monday at a Safeway store in San Rafael, fire officials said Tuesday.
A San Francisco writer has raised over $150,000 for victims of a massive apartment fire in the city's Mission District.
A wind-driven fire that destroyed 40 residents and damaged 5 others near the Nevada border is now 85 percent contained.
Fire crews have increased containment of a wind-driven wildfire that destroyed 40 homes, but say they don't know yet when residents evacuated from two small California towns at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada will be able to return home.
A two-alarm fire at a triplex near Oakland's San Antonio Park that displaced 14 adults early Sunday morning has been deemed suspicious, a fire battalion chief said.
Firefighters found 80-year-old Jenny Mesta dead in the back bedroom of her mobile home.
A woman was killed in a one-alarm fire at a mobile home community in San Jose early Saturday morning.
A female who died following a mysterious hit-and-run accident Wednesday in Milpitas has been identified as 14-year-old Cynthia Ramirez Becerra, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office.
The future of bonfires at San Francisco's Ocean Beach will get a hearing Thursday evening at a public meeting hosted by the National Park Service.
Blocks away from a car crash, a vehicle is found on fire, with the driver's body found nearby. Now Milpitas Police want to know how she ended up so far from the initial accident.
An Aston Martin was destroyed in a fire near San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts Saturday.
A firefighter suffered smoke inhalation battling a fire that damaged three buildings in San Francisco's Alamo Square neighborhood Saturday afternoon, a fire spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Family and friends of a fire victim are struggling to raise enough money for a funeral in his home country of El Salvador.
Fire crews doused a fire at two portable toilets in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood Sunday afternoon, a fire dispatcher said.
The blaze broke out in the bedroom in an apartment situated on the second floor of a 3-story Victorian.
A 13-year-old San Francisco boy says he was told to throw his dog from a burning San Francisco building during Wednesday's deadly inferno.
A GoFundMe campaign started just after the blaze had earned more than $20,000 by 2:30 p.m. Thursday. 450 people had chipped into the find, started by Mission Resident Zac Crockett.
San Francisco firefighters remain on the scene this morning of a four-alarm fire that killed one man and all but destroyed a Mission District building housing dozens of apartments and businesses Wednesday evening, fire officials said.
San Francisco firefighters battled a four-alarm fire at an apartment complex in the Mission District Wednesday evening that took almost eight hours to contain leaving one man dead and six others injured, including one firefighter.
Arson investigators were on on the scene where firefighters just knocked down a two-alarm fire in a carport at a duplex home on Weyburn Lane in San Jose Tuesday morning.
A California Highway Patrol officer was injured in a car fire on a Treasure Island ramp on the Bay Bridge Monday evening, a CHP spokesman said.
A 16-year-old girl was arrested Monday after authorities said she led police on a chase and slammed into a natural gas meter at a pizza parlor, causing a massive fire that burned down the restaurant.
This morning's wildfire was a grim reminder of how conditions are ideal for fire ignition. There is an elevated risk of explosive fire growth when the Bay Area experiences low humidity, gusty winds and low fuel moisture.
Roads have reopened and a Pacifica neighborhood is getting back to normal after a six-alarm vegetation fire forced the evacuation of about 80 homes early Monday morning, fire officials said.
