Brush Fire Contained In San Francisco's Presidio Cemetery
Firefighters contained a bush fire that started early Tuesday morning near the Nation Cemetery in the Presidio, authorites said.
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Firefighters contained a bush fire that started early Tuesday morning near the Nation Cemetery in the Presidio, authorites said.
Lanes on westbound Interstate Highway 80 just west of the Bay Bridge reopened Monday afternoon, following a big-rig fire that led to a nightmarish commute for many in the Bay Area.
Chevron Corp. on Monday agreed to pay $2 million in fines and restitution and pleaded no contest to six charges in last year's fire that sent thousands of residents to hospitals.
One firefighter was treated at a hospital after being injured in a fire in Millbrae Friday that damaged five apartments.
The fire was reported shortly before 3:30 a.m. at 22270 Montgomery St. Firefighters arrived at the 8-unit, 2-story apartment building to find cars engulfed in flames and neighbors describing a fire that was spreading unusually quickly.
Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at the site of a marijuana grow operation at a residence in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley early Tuesday morning, according to a fire dispatcher.
A grass fire that has burned 80 acres along Lakeville Highway six miles southeast of Petaluma is 50 percent contained
An electrical fire damaged an apartment located above a business on Park Street Friday morning.
A fire burned 40 to 45 acres of a eucalyptus tree grove along Lakeville Highway near Petaluma Friday afternoon, a Cal Fire spokeswoman said.
San Francisco's new $7.9 billion budget sets aside funding to hire 300 more police officers and another 120 firefighters over the next two years.
The 29-year-old Hercules resident was riding in a car with his brother and two friends on their way to play golf at the Franklin Canyon Golf Course about 1:30 p.m. Saturday when he saw a home on fire in the 2200 block of Lupine Road.
Multiple calls reported two homes on fire, Van Elgort said, and immediately after arriving firefighters called for a second alarm response and 30 minutes after that a third alarm.
The San Francisco Fire Department responded to a single-alarm fire in the city's Ingleside Heights neighborhood Friday afternoon, according to a fire department official.
The lone occupant of a single-family home in South San Jose was rescued following an early morning one-alarm fire at the residence, but most of the approximately 100 cats at her house perished in the blaze.
Firefighters in San Mateo were able to douse a three-alarm blaze of a structure early Monday morning, San Mateo County fire officials said.
A grass and brush fire that burned about 50 acres in far southeastern San Jose west of Morgan Hill on Friday is about 70 percent contained, a Cal Fire spokesman said.
A man was critically injured in an explosion that occurred while he was making hash oil in the bathroom of his Santa Rosa apartment on Tuesday night, a police sergeant said.
A recent 500 acre grass fire in Pittsburg possibly sparked by illegal fireworks showed how critically understaffed the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District has become, Chief Darryl Louder said Tuesday.
Fire officials say one man died and more than a dozen others were injured in a large fire at a Redwood City affordable housing complex.
After extinguishing the fire within about 15 minutes, crews found the man and woman inside the garage. Life-saving procedures were unsuccessful and both victims, believed to be in their 50s, were pronounced dead at the scene.
San Francisco firefighters were battling a two-alarm blaze near the city's Japantown neighborhood Thursday afternoon, a fire dispatcher said.
Firefighters gained control of a one-alarm house fire in Burlingame Wednesday morning, a San Mateo County fire dispatcher said.
Nathaniel Ridgway Schmidt, 20, of Cazadero, was sentenced Thursday in Sonoma County Superior Court to five years' probation and one year in the Sonoma County North Detention Facility.
The Milpitas and San Jose fire departments responded to a two-alarm fire at Santa Clara County's Elmwood Correctional Facility late Wednesday morning, a fire battalion chief said.
A man has been rescued from a home in Walnut Creek where a one-alarm fire broke out Monday afternoon, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District dispatcher said.
