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Homeless people were camping in an area where up to 100 recycling bins burned Wednesday afternoon near the University Avenue off-ramp from Interstate Highway 80 in Berkeley, but it remains unclear how the fire started, the city's acting fire chief said Thursday.
Two bodies were found at the scene of two-alarm fire at a Sunnyvale mobile home Thursday morning, according to a captain with the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety.
A fire investigation report released Tuesday gave more details about the cause of a five-alarm fire at an under-construction apartment building in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood in March.
Firefighters have controlled a fire near the Berkeley Interstate 80 University offramp Wednesday afternoon that possibly started with an explosion in a methamphetamine lab, the city's acting fire chief said.
Firefighters are battling a one-alarm blaze in Oakland Monday morning, a fire dispatcher said.
A two-alarm fire gutted a Fairfield house Saturday night, according to the Fairfield Fire Department.
Nine people living in a converted rear garage of a home in Vallejo were displaced Sunday morning in a two-alarm fire that totally destroyed the structure.
An elderly woman died in a one-alarm fire in Oakland Saturday morning.
Firefighters are at the scene of a 3-alarm house fire in San Francisco this morning, a fire dispatcher said.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection announced a ban on open burning in areas including parts of Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, effective Thursday.
State and local firefighters are on high alert as several grass fires have broken out during this stretch of hot weather.
A wildfire that forced the evacuation of at least 1,100 homes grew to 800 acres on Wednesday, fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that pushed it through foothills east of Los Angeles.
Investigators say that an explosion near the railroad tracks in San Leandro Wednesday may have been the result of someone trying to make hash oil, eventually setting off a butane gas fire.
Three people were displaced in a one-alarm house fire in San Jose Wednesday morning, a fire dispatcher said.
San Francisco firefighters have knocked down a fire at a Burger King restaurant on Powell Street between Ellis and Eddy streets in downtown San Francisco, a fire dispatcher said.
Firefighters in San Francisco were busy Friday morning, responding to three different fires within 20 minutes of each other.
A man was hospitalized with second-degree burns after escaping from his fiery apartment in downtown San Jose late Wednesday night.
A three-alarm fire that damaged three houses in San Francisco's Duboce Triangle neighborhood Tuesday afternoon caused more than $3 million in damage and displaced at least 10 people, according to the fire department.
A Livermore police office rescued an elderly woman from a burning house Tuesday night, police said Wednesday.
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Firefighters are battling a three-alarm house fire in San Francisco's Duboce Triangle neighborhood that was reported Tuesday afternoon.
San Francisco bestowed honors Friday on the firefighters and other emergency personnel who fought the Mission Bay blaze that destroyed a six-story apartment building under construction just south of AT&T Park.
No human remains were found by arson investigators who searched the charred wreckage of a vacant former television studio used as a shelter by dozens of squatters, a San Jose fire captain said Friday.
One person is in custody following a hit-and-run accident involving a San Francisco fire truck in the South of Market area.
A cooking oil fire caused major damage to a Taco Bell fast food restaurant in Sebastopol Wednesday evening
