SF News Three Major Bay Wildfires Now At or Near Full Containment, Five and a Half Weeks Later The destructive CZU Lightning Complex fire in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties was declared fully, 100-percent contained on Wednesday, five and a half weeks after it was sparked and 86,000 scorched acres later.
SF Politics Trump Lands In Sacramento For Wildfire Briefing, Gets Greeted By Protesters Trump was doing his best to seem presidential and look like he cared as he met with state leaders in Sacramento about the wildfire response, and Governor Gavin Newsom did his best not to spit in his face.
SF News Smoke To Sit Over Entire Bay Area All Day Friday As Air Quality Readings Hit 300+ As forecast yesterday by those in the know, the smoke situation that has dimmed and discolored the sky over the Bay Area isn't going to magically clear on Friday. There isn't enough wind to push the smoke in any direction except swirling over us, according to the latest model.
SF News 'Records Will Continue To Be Broken': Mendocino Fire Has Now Leaped Ahead of Bay Area Complexes In Size 2020 is set to add more record-huge blazes to that list before the year is out, and the August Complex fires burning in Mendocino National Forest have now surpassed both the LNU and SCU complexes in size to become the second-largest wildfire in state history.
SF News The ‘Orange Sky’ Was Also the 10th Anniversary of the San Bruno Pipeline Explosion Wednesday’s ominous dark orange skies came literally on the 10-year anniversary of the San Bruno explosion, a sort of horrible reminder of PG&E’s staying power.
SF News Three People Are Dead and At Least A Dozen Are Missing As Bear Fire Rages In Butte County The fire that's been being referred to as the Bear Fire received a new official name from Cal Fire Thursday morning: North Complex West Zone.
SF News SF Has 'Mediocre’ Census Response Rate, Fire-Ravaged North Bay Faring Much Worse The triple-whammy of Trump, COVID-19, and wildfire displacement are creating a drastic census undercount in NorCal, with congressional seats and billions of dollars on the line.
SF News Fire Flare-Ups and High Winds Prompt New Evacuations In Sonoma County, Widespread Power Shutoff Warnings Even before a Red Flag Warning had fully taken effect in Sonoma County, wind-blown flare-ups in the area of the Walbridge Fire — which was 95-percent contained as of Monday morning — prompted new evacuation orders Monday night for fire-weary residents.
SF News Smoke From Mendocino, Other Fires Chokes the Bay Area As Closer Fires Near Full Containment This Labor Day is less than a pleasant one for barbecues or anything outdoors, really, with the air heating up and more wildfire smoke descending on San Francisco and much of the Bay Area.
SF News Cal Fire Races to Contain Remaining Fires Ahead of Weekend Dry Spell A weekend heatwave with a drop in humidity could create hazards as firefighters work to contain what remains of the three major wildfire complexes in the Bay Area.
SF News LNU and SCU Fire Complexes Top 70-Percent Containment The LNU Lightning Complex fires in Sonoma, Napa and several other counties has reached 76-percent containment as Wednesday, with full containment estimated by early next week. The slightly larger SCU Lightning Complex stood at 72-percent contained as of midday.
SF News Fire Updates: Full Containment On SCU Complex Expected Thursday; Smoke to Linger Over Bay Until Wednesday Containment lines improved on all the Bay Area wildfires between Sunday and Monday, but the Woodward Fire in rugged parts of western Marin County remains the most difficult to manage.
SF News Largest Bay Area Wildfire Complexes More Than 50-Percent Contained The biggest two wildfire complexes, the LNU Lightning Complex and the SCU Lightning Complex are now at least half contained after firefighters made headway on containment lines Saturday.
SF News Fire Updates: LNU Damage Map Released, SCU Complex Grows Overnight The SCU and LNU Lightning Complex fires have traded off the number-two and number-three spots a couple of times this week on the list of the biggest wildfires in California history. And once again the SCU Complex in the East/South Bays and the Central Valley has moved to the top.
SF News Pipe Bomb Found Near Country Club in Santa Cruz Fire Zone In another weird twist in the realm of current wildfire stories around the Bay Area, firefighters doing "mop-up" work around the Boulder Creek Country Club in Santa Cruz County discovered an undetonated pipe bomb sitting in a tool box, along with other explosives.
SF News Fire Updates: Gusty West Winds Approach As Containment Levels Rise On Bay Area Fire Complexes The largest of the lightning-sparked conflagrations in the Bay Area, which is once again the LNU Lightning Complex fires by about 200 acres, saw containment rise to 33 percent overnight, and one entire zone of the SCU Lightning Complex has been declared fully contained.
SF News Fire Updates: Some Evacuees Return Home In Napa and Sonoma; Armstrong Redwoods Largely OK Containment on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay grew overnight on Tuesday, and evacuation orders began to be lifted in parts of the North Bay that either burned last week or were largely spared.
SF News Firefighters Slowly Increase Containment On Bay Area Fires Amid Favorable Weather Lower temperatures, higher humidity, and relatively calm winds have allowed firefighters to begin to get the upper hand on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay. But the smaller Woodward Fire in Marin County continues burning and threatening homes.
SF News The 10 Largest Wildfires In California History Were Neither the Deadliest Nor the Most Destructive The history of wildfires in both recent and less recent California memory is dotted with truly tragic events like the 2018 Camp Fire, as well as incomprehensibly large and destructive events that were not necessarily as tragic because few homes or people were lost to them.
SF News Newsom Enacts New Fire Shelter Strategies to Avoid COVID-19 Outbreaks We’re now feeling the full fury of coronavirus and wildfire crises happening at the same time, and the state is scrambling to make sure COVID outbreaks don’t hit thousands of shelter evacuees.
SF News Red Flag Warning Called Off and Firefighters Make Steady Progress Containing Three Major Wildfires Mother Nature has gone easy on us for once this month, and fears of overnight lightning storms failed to materialize, giving firefighters another night of calm, cool conditions to make progress on the three major fires burning in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
SF News Firefighter Battling CZU Lightning Fire Has Wallet Stolen and Bank Account Emptied By Thieves While helping to contain the life-threatening, ever-growing CZU Lightning fire, a CAL FIRE ground commander had their department vehicle broken into, wallet stolen, and bank account completely drained this weekend; welcome to 2020.
SF News Temporary Animal Shelters Pop Up Across Bay Area, Offering To House Everything From Rabbits to Llamas The wildfires raging across the Bay Area haven’t just forced people to flee their abodes in droves — but they've also left thousands of pets and livestock to go without shelter amid the chaos. Dogs, rabbits, and even llamas are now filling up temporary animal shelters all over the region.
SF News Walbridge Fire Held Outside Of Guerneville and Healdsburg As High Winds Arrive; SCU Complex Prompts New Evacuation We are heading into a scary 48-hour period for the three massive wildfire complexes around the Bay Area as unstable air and possible thunderstorms move north from the remnants of Hurricane Genevieve.
SF News Fire Updates: With 13,000 Firefighters Battling Blazes, Newsom Asks Australia and Canada For Help Saturday, it was confirmed the LNU Lightning Complex and SCU Lightning Complex fires became the second and third largest wildfires in the state’s history. Newsom before the weekend also pleaded to Canada and Australia for help to contend with this "unprecedented moment" in time.
