Oakland Resident Reports Black Firefighter To Police During Routine Inspection
An Oakland firefighter is at the center of the latest high-profile case of what appears to be racial profiling in the area.
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An Oakland firefighter is at the center of the latest high-profile case of what appears to be racial profiling in the area.
Fireworks at the end of an A's game are believed to have set off a fire that blazed in a roofing materials yard near the Oakland Coliseum BART station Friday nigh.
Nine people were displaced by a fire Sunday afternoon in an East Oakland apartment building, a fire department battalion chief said.
Oakland's fire marshal, who came under heavy criticism following the deadly Ghost Ship and San Pablo Avenue fires, has resigned, the department said Friday morning.
A large fire has destroyed a vacant landmark building in East Oakland Friday; the third fire at the site in a year.
An Oakland fire captain was being held on $200,000 bail Thursday after child pornography was discovered on his home computer.
Firefighters in Oakland were able to quickly extinguish a car fire that broke out in the parking lot at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum early Monday evening before the A's home opener.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she found e-mails from fire officials warning of dangerous conditions in a building that burned this week to be "extremely disturbing."
Oakland fire officials say they didn't visit the Ghost Ship warehouse before the deadly fire, but some say firefighters were there in 2014.
There is no record of any fire inspection of the Ghost Ship warehouse that was gutted by flames last Friday, killing 36 people, in at least 10 years, sources within the Oakland Fire Department tell KCBS.
The warehouse was known as the "Oakland Ghost Ship." Officials said people either escaped from the cluttered building or died inside.
Fire officials in Oakland said a two-alarm fire Wednesday morning at a two-story multi-family Victorian-style home displaced six people and caused about $100,000 in damage.
The fire started around 1 a.m. at a business at the intersection of 73rd Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard and was deemed under control at 6:40 a.m.
Oakland firefighters are receiving accolades from the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals after rescuing a dog from inside a burning home last week, PETA officials announced.
A 1-alarm fire in Oakland Thursday morning displaced three people and one person was taken to the hospital after jumping from the home's second floor.
Firefighters in Oakland battled a four-alarm blaze that burned three homes near Mills College Thursday evening.
Firefighters brought a one-alarm house fire in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood under control Saturday morning.
Firefighters battled a fire that damaged an apartment and a vehicle along Foothill Boulevard in East Oakland Saturday morning.
Video has surfaced of a tense situation between a white Oakland police officer and a black off-duty firefighter outside the fire station where he worked. Meanwhile, police said the officer was "within policy" during the incident.
A black Oakland firefighter has filed a complaint with the Oakland Police Department after he and his young kids were detained by a white police officer outside the station where the firefighter worked.
Police say a downed power line in Oakland electrocuted one man and critically injured a second.
Police are looking for two people in connection to a suspicious fire that caused an Oakland apartment building to fall off its foundation on Friday night.
An elderly woman died in a one-alarm fire in Oakland Saturday morning.
An aspiring firefighter had his life cut short after being gunned down in East Oakland Tuesday night.
A single-alarm fire in the space between floors in a building on Telegraph Avenue shut down a cafe and displaced more than a dozen residents Sunday afternoon.
