PG&E Agrees To Extend Deadline For Wildfire Damage Claims
Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to extend by two months the deadline to file claims against the company for damages suffered from a series of wildfires in California.
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Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to extend by two months the deadline to file claims against the company for damages suffered from a series of wildfires in California.
While the Kincade Fire is mostly contained, its victims are still trying to get their lives back in order on Monday, with many seeking assistance at the Kincade Fire recovery center that opened in Healdsburg.
President Donald Trump is threatening to cut U.S. funding to California for aid during wildfires that have burned across the state this fall.
Firefighters are slowly but surely gaining control of the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, with 78 percent containment reported as of Sunday night and all evacuation orders issued over the past week and a half have been lifted.
A suspected arsonist is behind bars after firefighters were called to a series of fires Saturday night near the Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park on the east edge of Union City.
Scattered across California, Nevada and Oregon, an expanding network of remote-control cameras is on the lookout 24/7 for wildfires.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that he wants to speed up the troubled Pacific Gas & Electric bankruptcy case so the company can be restructured in time for next year's wildfire season.
The Kincade Fire in Sonoma County northeast of Geyserville has burned 77,758 acres and is 68 percent contained on Friday morning, Cal Fire said.
KPIX 5's Andrea Nakano caught up with returning evacuees who managed to find at least some glimmers of light among the ashes of the Kincade Fire
For tens of thousands of children in Northern California, the biggest monsters this Halloween are wildfires that have thrown trick-or-treating into disarray.
Things have by no means returned to normal in the areas evacuated during the Kincade Fire, but Thursday was a step in that direction.
After a very long and sometimes dangerous week battling the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, some of the fire crews finally got to go home Thursday.
Even though thousands of evacuees are back in their homes in Sonoma County, many still need help getting their feet back on the ground. And that includes stocking the fridge up.
A pregnant North Bay couple who were chased out of their Windsor home by the encroaching flames of the Kincade Fire were forced to deliver their new baby at a Napa hotel earlier this week.
The Shaded Fuelbreak Project to create a defensible space along Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains is nearing its end as major wildfires continue to burn around the state.
As fire fighters continue to battle the Kincade Fire Wednesday, trying to limit its spread and increase containment, a massive base camp is helping crews replenish and refuel.
PG&E is investigating whether its power lines caused one home to burn down, and damaged three others in Milpitas over the weekend.
Firefighters have extinguished a brush fire that briefly closed Olivera Road at State Route 242 in Concord Tuesday afternoon.
Odin, the Bay Area dog who became something of a celebrity during the 2017 Wine Country wildfires, was back in the fire zones Monday.
Wind gusts topping 80 mph created blowtorch-like conditions in Sonoma County along the massive Kincade Fire lines Sunday, fanning the out-of-control blaze into a wall of flames that approached the outskirts of Windsor and led to a new evacuation warning in neighboring Napa County.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Sunday issued a consumer warning against price gouging in the wake of the state's wildfires, including the Kincade fire in Sonoma County.
Smoke from a large vegetation fire in Solano County has prompted a smoke advisory to be issued in Contra Costa County, officials said Sunday.
Evacuations caused by a 50-acre wildfire in southern Martinez Sunday afternoon were lifted early Sunday evening, according to firefighters with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a statewide emergency as wildfires and extreme weather conditions forced almost 200,000 people from their homes.
Fires erupted along Interstate 80 near Crockett Sunday, prompting evacuation notices for residents on both ends of the Carquinez Bridge, authorities said.
