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Officials with the California Office of Emergency Services near Sacramento are making sure local communities have all the resources they need to fight these fires, from staffing, to tankers, to shelters.
Officials said the fast-moving fire caught residents in the small town of Weed near the Oregon border off guard and damaged or destroyed 100 homes and a church in this tiny town.
A car carrier truck full of Mercedes-Benz cars about to go to auction burst into flames Monday morning in Hayward, a fire captain said.
A dog was rescued from a one-alarm fire at an apartment in San Pablo on Monday afternoon.
Firefighters responded to a 2-alarm blaze at a lumber mill in San Jose Tuesday morning, fire officials said.
A fire driven by fierce winds raced through a small town near the Oregon border on Monday, burning a church to the ground, damaging or destroying 100 homes and prompting evacuation orders for at least 1,500 people, authorities said.
The Sonoma County coroner's office has identified a woman who was found dead in her cluttered and burned Santa Rosa home Saturday night as 78-year-old Norene Losee.
A one-alarm fire at an abandoned school in Pittsburg Sunday afternoon is considered suspicious, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District official said.
The Santa Rosa Fire Department reports it is investigating a two-alarm fire that killed a woman in her home on Saturday night.
Fire officials say the woman attempted to jump from the third floor to a nearby tree, but fell to the ground. She suffered injuries in the fall.
Three apartment residents were displaced early Friday morning by a fire that might have been started by an unattended candle.
Firefighting helicopters have made progress against a small brush fire in the San Gabriel Mountains foothill community of San Dimas.
Fire officials called in additional crews to help battle a blaze in Yosemite National Park that forced hikers to be evacuated and sent smoke into the park's famed valley for the first time Tuesday, officials said.
A 20-year-old woman pleaded no contest Monday to setting her ex-boyfriend's bed on fire while he was sleeping in 2012.
Cooler weather has slowed the spread of a wildfire that forced the helicopter evacuation of dozens of people from the famous Half Dome rock in Yosemite National Park.
A grass fire burning near Lake Chabot is causing street closures on the outskirts of San Leandro Monday afternoon, police and fire officials said.
A Sunday structure fire in Alameda displaced four families, injured a firefighter and killed a dog.
A neighbor is being credited with saving a woman from a house fire in Pinole.
A 400-acre wildfire in Yosemite National Park has prompted the evacuation of about 100 campers, officials said.
An evacuation order for 300 homes near Yosemite National Park remained in effect Saturday as firefighters battled a wildfire scorching about 300 acres in Central California
Smoke from a grass and vegetation fire is billowing across southbound Interstate 880 in Hayward.
The Chief of Staff for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi toured San Francisco's Sunnydale housing project Thursday, after a deadly fire last April prompted concerns and complaints among residents.
A retail store in San Francisco's Mission District that was destroyed in a five-alarm fire Thursday afternoon had previously been given a correction notice by the fire department for overcrowding of merchandise.
Fire crews knocked down a two-alarm fire at a Twin Peaks apartment building in San Francisco Friday morning.
Four people, including a firefighter, were hospitalized with smoke inhalation from a massive fire that raged in San Francisco's Mission District Thursday afternoon.
