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The Salvation Army has deployed a Disaster Response Team and a mobile kitchen to assist fire crews at the scene of a five-alarm building fire that broke out this afternoon in San Francisco's Mission District.
The fire was contained in less than an hour and along with evacuations, it did cause some road closures in the area.
Fire and rescue crews extinguished a brush fire caused by an overturned truck on a Lafayette hillside Tuesday morning, according to police.
Authorities resumed the search this morning for a swimmer who disappeared while crossing the mouth of Drakes Estero in the Point Reyes National Seashore on Monday afternoon.
A roadside fire temporarily closed a northbound lane on state Highway 87 in San Jose Tuesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A big-rig carrying vehicles caught fire on southbound Interstate Highway 680 in unincorporated Martinez Monday afternoon, backing up traffic on the highway, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Firefighters are responding to a fire burning through multiple structures and vegetation in Forestville Monday afternoon, according to the Forestville Fire Protection District.
Two wildfires sparked by lightning nearly three weeks ago were still growing on Saturday while threatening as many as 250 homes in far Northern California.
Traffic is moving again on state Highway 152 east of Gilroy as firefighters battle an 80-acre brush fire in the area Thursday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A large grass fire was burning near homes and highways in Vallejo Wednesday afternoon.
A tanker ship disabled by an engine room fire that killed a crewmember earlier this month is due to arrive at the Port of San Francisco Wednesday afternoon.
An earthquake-damaged water main played a role in Vallejo firefighters' ability to put out Tuesday morning's fire on Mare Island.
Firefighters in Vallejo controlled a structure fire on Mare Island Tuesday morning, fire officials said.
Evacuation orders have been lifted for residents of some 200 homes, as crews make good progress against a wildfire burning near the Northern California town of Weaverville.
Firefighters contained a three-alarm structure fire in San Francisco Tuesday morning, just blocks from City College of San Francisco.
Firefighters were able to control a three-alarm industrial fire on Mare Island in Vallejo, after it burned for several hours Friday afternoon.
Firefighters contained a fire that burned several box trucks full of donated items at a Santa Clara donation center late Friday afternoon.
A fire that killed a mother and her 3-year-old son at a home in San Francisco's Sunnydale housing projects in April was accidental in nature, according to a fire investigation report released by fire officials Thursday.
Firefighters have contained a four-alarm fire in Oakland that burned dozens of people out of their homes Wednesday evening.
A fire destroyed four parked cars and badly damaged another in the parking lot of the Lafayette BART station Wednesday afternoon, a fire official said.
13,000 homes and businesses have been ordered to evacuate as firefighters race to stop a second massive wildfire raging near the entrance to Yosemite National Park.
A pilot has been found dead in the wreckage of a downed plane in Marin County Tuesday morning as firefighters continue to battle a brush fire, according to the Marin County Sheriff's Office.
Authorities have sent evacuation orders to some 13,000 phone numbers as a wildfire bears down on a foothill community near Yosemite National Park in Central California.
Smoke from a trailer fire near Mount Umunhum just south of San Jose was widely seen across the area before fire crews put it out Monday morning.
Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.
