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The absence of sprinklers in a Redwood City apartment building was a factor in the rapid spread of an early-morning fire that grew to six alarms and sent four residents to hospitals, fire officials said.
A bill that aims to improve safety for limousine passengers in the wake of a fatal limousine tragedy that killed five women on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge earlier this year was signed into law Friday.
Two homes and an outbuilding were destroyed in a fire that burned in a hilly, remote area of Aptos early Tuesday morning.
A building collapsed in a two-alarm fire at a lumber yard near San Jose Tuesday morning, a Cal Fire captain said.
Authorities in San Francisco say they received reports that fireworks may have been responsible for a small yet visually stunning blaze on Yerba Buena Island.
A Palo Alto home that was scheduled for a renovation was a total loss after an early morning blaze, a battalion chief said.
Firefighters in Petaluma were able to knock down a blaze at a home that displaced five Sunday morning.
Three wind-fueled fires burning Friday sent thick clouds of smoke across most of the Bay Area. The largest fire was burning near Suisun City, with another burning in Bencia and a third near Rohnert Park.
A man and his dog died Thursday morning in a fire at a Vallejo mobile home park, a fire spokesman said.
The CEO of electric car company Tesla says a battery in a Model S that caught fire this week was apparently impaled by a metal object.
A quickly spreading wildfire burning near Lake Berryessa in Napa County was 75 percent contained as of Friday morning, according to authorities.
A vegetation fire north of Livermore has spread across more than 50 acres Friday morning, Alameda County fire officials said.
Fire crews have controlled a three-alarm fire at a Sunnyvale apartment building Thursday afternoon, a Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety captain said.
On Tuesday, Sutter County DA Carl Adams announced he'll step down, just hours after his former lover accused police in an Associated Press article of overreaching when they counted him as a suspect in the fire investigation.
Power was restored to most of the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday as officials confirmed that the theft of copper cables from a substation caused a campus-wide outage that preceded an explosion and evacuation.
Firefighters in San Jose put out a fire that burned in a city park Sunday afternoon, a dispatcher said.
A brush fire that spanned both sides of the Caltrain tracks in Burlingame Wednesday evening caused major delays for the rail service throughout the evening commute, fire and Caltrain officials said.
Firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at a church near the the West Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit station on Monday afternoon.
San Jose police were investigating a marijuana grow operation inside a suburban home in South San Jose that firefighters discovered while battling a fire Friday morning, a police spokeswoman said.
A fire that raged in forestland in and around Yosemite National Park has left a contiguous "moonscape" in the Sierra Nevada mountains larger than any in centuries.
A three-alarm fire that spread between two West Oakland homes was brought under control by firefighters Tuesday morning, according to a fire dispatcher.
The Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park is 84 percent contained Monday with full containment expected Friday, fire officials said. Meanwhile, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission said it will take several months before the Hetch Hetchy water and power system is fully restored.
Seven residents were displaced from their home in an early Monday morning fire in Pacifica according to officials.
Mount Diablo State Park has reopened to visitors Monday after firefighters contained a blaze that charred more than 3,000 acres in the past week.
Three people were injured early Sunday morning in a fire at a home in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood where firefighters found marijuana and grow equipment, police said Monday.
