CAL FIRE

Fires rage through drought-ridden Bay Area as residents brace for more lightning, extreme heat

Severe drought conditions, an extreme heat wave and lightning strikes don’t bode well for fire prevention. Storms that traveled north…

4 years ago

Cal Fire issues evacuation warning for residents near Mt. Diablo fires

Residents on the upper portion of Morgan Territory Road are being advised to prepare to evacuate due to fires in…

4 years ago

Multiple agencies show to up to fight several fires in unincorporated Contra Costa

Multiple agencies are responding Sunday morning to several fires in the area of Morgan Territory and Marsh Creek roads near…

4 years ago

Crews reach 75 percent containment on 253-acre Hollow Fire near Livermore

The Hollow Fire burning southeast of Livermore has scorched 253 acres and was 75 percent contained on Friday morning, according…

4 years ago

Covid-19 update: Two more Bay Area counties make watchlist, school district announces online start, Fairfield cases spike

After landing spots on the County Monitoring List, the state could soon impose restrictions on Sonoma and Alameda counties. Contra…

4 years ago

After five days, 5,513 acres burned, Crews Fire reaches 90 percent containment

The Crews Fire burning since Sunday afternoon in hills east of Gilroy is 90 percent contained as of Friday morning,…

4 years ago

Crews Fire holds at 5,400 acres, firefighters reach 60 percent containment

The Crews Fire burning since Sunday in the hills east of Gilroy in rural Santa Clara County is at 60…

4 years ago

Gusty afternoon winds threaten to intensify 5,400-acre Crews Fire

The Crews Fire that started Sunday in the hills east of Gilroy in rural Santa Clara County has burned an…

4 years ago

Strike team joins effort to battle 2,000-acre Crews Fire

The Crews Fire burning east of Gilroy in rural Santa Clara County has burned an estimated 2,000 acres and is…

4 years ago

Fire near Gilroy scorches 1,000 acres

The Crews Fire east of Gilroy in rural Santa Clara County has consumed about 1,000 acres as of 6:30 p.m.…

4 years ago

Crews Fire near Gilroy jumps from 150 to 600 acres in less than two hours

The public is being asked to avoid the area of the Crews Fire near Crews Road east of Gilroy, which…

4 years ago

Cal Fire aircraft battles 200-acre Park Fire from above

The Park Fire on a wooded ridgeline outside Morgan Hill has grown to 200 acres and is 20 percent contained,…

4 years ago

Drone forces fire aircraft to ground during Parish Fire control effort

Crews are at the scene of a brush fire Saturday afternoon near Interstate Highway 680 near Cordelia in Solano County,…

4 years ago

Crews battle 6-acre Bailey Fire along Hwy 101

Firefighters are battling a 6-acre fire in the area of southbound U.S. Highway 101 in South San Jose on Thursday…

4 years ago

Crews stop forward progress on 2-acre Napa County vegetation fire

Crews from the Sonoma-Lake-Napa unit of Cal Fire were responding Sunday afternoon to a vegetation fire off of Chiles Pope…

4 years ago

Quail Fire grows to 1,400 acres, damages three buildings as wind stokes blaze

The Quail Fire in rural Solano County between Vacaville and Winters has grown to 1,400 acres and is 10 percent,…

4 years ago

Evacuation center established after Quail Fire torches 1,200 acres in Solano County

The Quail Fire has destroyed two buildings and about 1,200 acres of vegetation in rural Solano County between Vacaville and…

4 years ago

Crews reach 80 percent containment on San Jose vegetation fire

A brush fire that may have been intentionally set Thursday evening in South San Jose burned 90 acres and was…

4 years ago

Firefighters work through night as Colleen Fire burns through 90 acres

Evacuations have been lifted in San Jose Thursday night after a vegetation fire prompted those orders, fire officials said. An…

4 years ago

Helicopter contracted by PG&E crashes, kills three people on board

PG&E officials said a helicopter that crashed near Fairfield and killed three people on board Tuesday afternoon was flying on…

4 years ago

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