Mitchell Fire on Mount Diablo Fully Contained
A 4-acre wildfire near the summit of Mount Diablo was 100 percent contained Sunday morning and firefighters remained on scene cleaning the area into the afternoon.
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A 4-acre wildfire near the summit of Mount Diablo was 100 percent contained Sunday morning and firefighters remained on scene cleaning the area into the afternoon.
A grass fire on Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County has grown to three acres Saturday night, with zero containment.
Federal officials are stepping up efforts to help firefighters dealing with trauma and other issues after noticing an increase in wildland firefighter suicides in recent years.
After almost 30 years, people who made it out of the Oakland Hills firestorm in 1991 are starting to talk about the growing danger they see today.
California lawmakers have approved a sprawling bill meant to shore up the state's major electric utilities in the face of another wildfire season.
A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday ordered PG&E Co. to respond "paragraph by paragraph" to a Wall Street Journal article that alleges the utility knew for years that parts of its aging transmission lines could fail and spark fires, but failed to fix them.
Firefighters who battled the October 2017 Tubbs Fire in Napa, Sonoma and Lake counties have tested at "troubling" levels for toxic exposure, according to a new study.
Fire crews have contained a brush fire near Martinez Friday that threatened some homes in the area, according to a spokesman with the Contra Costa Fire Protection District.
Firefighters battled multiple brush and structure fires burning close to each other in San Jose Thursday afternoon.
PG&E has begun daily aerial fire and smoke detection patrols across the thousands of miles of its service area, the utility company said Tuesday.
A 43-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with starting a vegetation fire in the Fremont hills above Niles on June 23, Fremont police announced Monday.
A wildfire burning east of Mount Hamilton in Stanislaus County has exploded in size overnight, scorching 1,000 acres as of Wednesday morning.
A fast-moving wildfire that burned 15 acres in Walnut Creek Tuesday afternoon has been knocked down without any damage to nearby structures, according to the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.
A 2-alarm grass fire is burning near Interstate 580 westbound just east of Greenville Road in Livermore and has shut down lanes of the roadway, according to the CHP.
The Fremont Fire Department and Cal Fire extinguished a two-alarm vegetation fire near Montalban Drive and Blaisdell Way just north of a residential neighborhood in the Niles neighborhood of Fremont.
About 50 firefighters from three fire districts were able to contain an approximately 36-acre fire in unincorporated Contra Costa County southwest of Brentwood early Sunday morning.
Texas officials are raising concerns over Rapid DNA analysis that has been used to identify wildfire victims in Northern California and verify family connections on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The city of Mill Valley is considering an aggressive wildfire prevention plan that would ban a lot of residential landscaping. Pushback from the community is causing the city council to look for ways to soften the blow.
Contra Costa Fire Assistant Chief, Chris Bachman was watching the department's 2019 Fire Academy Class as they worked through their final phase of training. He says the firefighter's nightmare is just around the corner -- the 4th of July.
PG&E has agreed to pay $1 billion to local governments for their losses from wildfires dating back to 2015. Those payments will be included in the utility's Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan once it's finalized.
The increasing fire danger prompted Cal Fire to suspend burn permits in Sonoma, Lake, Napa, Solano, Yolo, and Colusa Counties. The ban does not apply to campfires within campgrounds and on private property.
The Santa Rosa Fire Department on Wednesday will begin inspecting parcels to make sure they comply with the city's weed and rubbish abatement ordinance during the fire season.
The Malech Fire, burning in unincorporated Santa Clara County between San Jose and Morgan Hill, has not grown in size overnight and is 85 percent contained as of Monday morning, according to Cal Fire officials.
Smoke from the Sand Fire in Yolo County, has been reported Saturday night over Marin, Solano and Sonoma Counties and helped make sunset over San Francisco more dramatic than usual.
PG&E turned electricity off around 6 a.m. to 1,600 customers in parts Napa, Solano and Yolo counties to guard against wildfires as the weather turned very windy, dry and hot.
