California AG Issues Price Gouging Alert Amid Wildfires
Attorney General Xavier Becerra is asking anyone who has been a victim of price gouging or who has information of potential price gouging to file a complaint.
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Attorney General Xavier Becerra is asking anyone who has been a victim of price gouging or who has information of potential price gouging to file a complaint.
Wind-whipped wildfires devastated the North Bay wine region and neighboring counties, killing at least 10 people, burning at least 1,500 buildings, and forcing thousands to evacuate.
Many North Bay schools that closed Monday as a result of multiple wildfires burning in the region will remain closed Tuesday.
People throughout the Bay Area reported smoke and ash early Monday morning after multiple out-of-control wildfires broke out in Napa and Sonoma Counties.
National Weather Service officials Sunday extended a Red Flag Warning through Tuesday evening for the North Bay mountains because the risk of wildfires will be extremely high.
Gusty offshore winds and low humidity will create critical fire conditions through early next week in the North Bay mountains and East Bay hills.
Marin County is one the few places in the Bay Area still using "fire lookouts" on days with high fire danger.
Three homes and several other structures have been destroyed in a small wildfire burning near Vacaville.
About 6.3 billion dead trees are still standing in 11 Western states, up from 5.8 billion five years ago
A fire raging in west Gilroy was 10 percent contained Monday evening as fire crews established containment lines to protect homes and structures.
Winds are pushing wildfires burning around two crown jewels of the National Park Service toward a century-old lodge and into an ancient grove of sequoias.
Signs posted along the roads in the Oakland and Berkeley hills indicate "extreme fire danger." The sweltering heat, dry brush and wind are conditions ripe for fire.
Smoke from wildfires burning to the north and the east are filling the skies around the Bay Area.
Authorities have issued an evacuation order for the small town of Wawona as a week-old fire in Yosemite National Park grows.
Rangers at Yosemite National Park have alerted a small community to a wildfire that crews are struggling to contain from the air and ground.
The fire affected the Liberty Glen campsite. It raged over 2.7 acres and was extinguished in about 3 hours.
The fire is burning grass and oak trees. The cause is under investigation.
The evacuation warnings were lifted around noon, Cal Fire spokeswoman Suzie Blankenship said.
Firefighters have contained 5 percent of the fire, which is burning grass and oak trees.
Firefighters will make a final sweep Monday at the scene of the 20-acre East Bay Hills vegetation fire "to make sure we are at 100 percent containment," a battalion chief said Sunday.
The wildfire in the hills along the Oakland-Berkeley border is now 90 percent contained.
Fire investigators on Thursday were trying to figure out how the fire that consumed 20 acres near Grizzly Peak Boulevard started Wednesday and whether it could have been arson.
About 100 gallons of liquid retardant fell on about a dozen homes and cars in the 300 block of Decanter Circle in southwest Windsor.
Firefighters are bracing for the possibility of dry lightning as they battle a stubborn blaze that has scorched nearly 120 square miles near Yosemite National Park.
Firefighters in Santa Clara County contained a brush fire that burned 125 acres in an unincorporated area south of Gilroy.
