SF News Two San Francisco Women Arrested on Suspicion of Arson, Burglary, and Vandalism at Rohnert Park Condo Two SF residents, Danesha Morales, 26, and Breanna Lewis, 36, are accused of setting a fire to their former residence in the North Bay that caused $200,000 of damage.
SF News Body Found In East Bay House That Appeared to Be Set On Fire Investigators in the East Bay city of Concord suspect foul play in the death of a person whose remains were found in a house that was likely set on fire Thursday evening.
SF News Vacaville Woman Charged With Setting 10 Los Altos Wildfires In One Day It was a busy Saturday for the Santa Clara County Fire Department, the local Cal Fire Unit, and the Foothill-De Anza Community College Police Department, as they battled 10 fires — all allegedly set by the same person.
SF News Could SF Have Another Toilet Torcher? Porta-Potty Fire on McCoppin Threatens Buildings Way back in 2009, a string of porta-potty arsons led SFist to nickname the perpetrator the Toilet Torcher. And any time a new incident of porta-potty torching arises, we still have to wonder, are they back?
SF News Four East Bay Arson Suspects Arrested For an Astonishing 33 Fires in a 48-Hour Period It’s unclear whether the four suspects and more than 30 fires set over two days are in any way related, and while no one was hurt, one report says that a suspect managed to escape custody.
SF News Man Accused of Setting San Jose Home Depot on Fire Identified and Charged A 27-year-old man from San Jose is now behind bars, accused of setting fire to a Home Depot two Saturdays ago as he stole several items.
SF News Illegal Marijuana Farmer Found Guilty for Starting the 2020 Dolan Fire The Dolan Fire that killed a firefighter and 12 California condors was started intentionally, and the 31-year-old illegal marijuana grower who started it was found guilty of arson on Thursday.
SF News Bail Reduced For Accused Caldor Fire Arsonists; Clue Emerges About Machine Gun We still don't know what the prosecution's theory is in the ignition of the Caldor Fire in August, but the father and son accused of starting it are now free on drastically reduced bail.
SF News Father and Son Arrested on Suspicion of Starting the Caldor Fire in August A father and son who were in the vicinity of the ignition point of the massive Caldor Fire in August, and who made the first 911 calls about the wildfire, are now under arrest and set to be charged with wildfire arson.
SF News Somebody Set the Christmas Tree In Oakland's Jack London Square on Fire The Christmas tree in Jack London Square was torched early Monday, but may have been saved from being a total loss — though it's not clear if it will be able to be restrung with lights and used for a tree-lighting ceremony on Saturday.
SF News Fawn Fire Arson Suspect Deemed Mentally Unfit to Stand Trial Well that was quick! 30-year-old bioengineer-turned-yoga instructor Alexandra Souverneva, the sole suspect in September's Fawn Fire, has been deemed mentally incompetent to face trial by a judge in Shasta County.
SF News Is the Pandemic Making Wildfire Arson More Common? Some experts have already been saying that the COVID-19 pandemic may be causing arsons to spike, much as it has caused other types of serious crime to spike as well. And a couple of recent examples in Northern California feature suspects with tenuous mental health.
SF News Palo Alto Scientist Arrested In Fawn Fire May Be Serial Arsonist The circumstances around last week's arrest of a 30-year-old Palo Alto woman who was in the immediate area of the Fawn Fire as it began in Shasta County remain a bit mysterious, and there is likely more to the story that investigators haven't made public.
SF News Possibly Mentally Disturbed Bay Area Woman Arrested For Setting Fawn Fire In Shasta County; Fire Grows to 1,200 Acres A woman seen in the area of the explosive Fawn Fire in Shasta County on Wednesday who later sought help from firefighters has now been arrested on suspicion of being the arsonist behind it.
SF News Spree of 15 Arson Fires Puts Healdsburg On Edge A suspected arsonist had firefighters chasing down small blazes all around Healdsburg on Monday, putting residents and firefighters both on edge for hours amid continued dry conditions.
SF News Video: Woman Sets Police Truck on Fire in the Tenderloin, Remains at Large After a woman successfully managed to torch an SFPD pickup truck Wednesday afternoon, police have a description of her, but don't know her name or have her in custody.
SF News Fire at Abandoned Van Ness Parklet Deemed ‘Suspicious’ by SFFD The parklet outside the shuttered August 1 Five restaurant was ablaze early Saturday morning, and the fire department says the incident is "suspicious in nature."
SF News One Wildfire In 2020's LNU Complex Believed to Have Been Arson to Cover Up Murder One of last August's wildfires that merged with others to become the LNU Lightning Complex fires is now believed to have been the result of arson — and the culprit, according to the Solano County Sheriff's Office, is a 29-year-old man who likely set the blaze to cover up an earlier murder.
SF News No Charges Filed In Oakland Liquor Store Shooting That Led to Deadly Arson A fatal shooting in East Oakland on April 10 led to a cascade of retaliatory events, including an arson fire that killed a man and his baby daughter. And now, the man who turned himself in for the shooting is not being charged.
SF News Homicide Investigation Underway After Suspected Arson Fire Kills Father and Daughter in Oakland What's being investigated as an arson fire killed a 37-year-old father and his one-year-old daughter inside their Oakland home early Saturday morning; police have deemed the incident a double homicide.
SF News Homeless Man In Critical Condition After Apparently Being Set on Fire In Oakland A man whose age and identity are still not known was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday night after apparently being set ablaze in East Oakland.
SF News Homeless Man Arrested In Connection With Three Suspected Arson Fires In Marin County For the second time in a week a transient man was arrested in Novato on suspicion of arson — this time it was a string of three suspicious fires, one of which authorities say they saw him light.
Arts & Entertainment Andy Goldsworthy 'Spire' Sculpture in Presidio Damaged By Possible Arson Fire An invaluable environmental art piece by the sculptor Andy Goldsworthy was damaged early Tuesday morning in what investigators believe was an act of arson.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Possible Arson Attempts Hit Travis Kalanick’s Ghost Kitchen Travis Kalanick’s follow-up to Uber, a caboodle of secretive ghost kitchens in SoMa, suffered a break-in and a fire last week.
SF News Oakland Man Sentenced To Five Years For Setting Construction Site Fire An arson case at an under-construction apartment complex on the Oakland-Emeryville border — one of 10 that was set in similar circumstances around Oakland in the last seven years — has ended in a five-year sentence.
