SF News Two Sunday Fires In Lafayette Appear To Have Been Caused By PG&E Equipment Despite the power being shut off to surrounding areas in the East Bay on Sunday, live wires in an area that was not part of the shutoff in Lafayette appear to have been the cause of two separate fires.
SF News Kincade Fire Doubles In Size, Moves Into Tubbs Fire Territory Overnight With winds whipping it up and pushing it further south, the Kincade Fire in northern Sonoma County grew to 66,000 acres and began spreading into areas around Santa Rosa that burned in the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Muni Service Impacted By Kincade Fire Muni drivers impacted by North Bay fires and power shutoffs aren't coming to work, three people were killed in an Amtrak collision in Richmond, and Vallejo is having a water emergency due to the power shutoff.
SF News Fires Erupt Along Highway 24 Prompting Evacuation Order For Lafayette Two small fires began Sunday afternoon on either side of Highway 24 in Contra Costa County, and county fire officials say the fires are "rapidly expanding" in the current winds.
SF News Fire In Vallejo Jumps Across Carquinez Strait To Crockett, Shuts Down Bridge A wildfire that broke out Sunday morning near the Maritime Academy in Vallejo is now burning in both Solano and Contra Costa counties after jumping across the Carquinez Strait. Both the bridge and I-80 have been closed as a result.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Explaining Why California Catches Fire The governor declares states of emergency for Sonoma and Los Angeles counties, Airbnb hosts offer free housing to fire victims and rescue workers, and Uber is moving to Mission Bay.
SF News Weekend Power Shutoffs To Impact Large Parts of Alameda, Contra Costa, and Marin Counties The latest map of potentially impacted areas in the upcoming weekend public safety power shutoffs by PG&E includes wide swaths of every Bay Area county except San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Five Rad Halloween Parties To Check Out In SF It's one of those Halloweens where the actual holiday falls deep into the week after a weekend that will be filled with Halloween parties, so for die-hards, this is going to mean two or three different costumes.
SF News Smoke From Kincade Fire Begins Drifting Toward San Francisco Bay While air quality in San Francisco on Friday remained good, that may be changing as the cloud of smoke from the Kincade Fire near Geyserville grows and shifts tonight into Saturday.
SF News 21-Year-Old Woman Fatally Shot in Merced Manor Neighborhood A shooting that we learned about on Thursday in a residence across the street from Lowell High School turns out to have been a fatal one, after a 21-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries at the hospital.
SF News Dead Baby Found at San Jose Garbage-Sorting Facility A deceased infant was found on a conveyor belt amid trash and recyclables Friday morning at a waste-sorting facility in San Jose.
SF News PG&E Stock Tanks Anew Following Kincade Fire News PG&E's stock is hitting new lows Friday following news that one of its transmission lines may have again been responsible for a destructive wildfire, as it continues to try to emerge from bankruptcy.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Felicity Huffman Leaves Jail Early Highway 1 remains closed near Muir and Stinson Beaches due to the Muir Fire, the power has been turned back on for "nearly all" customers in the latest shutoff, and one member of the Kendall-Jackson Winery family lost her home in the Kincade Fire.
SF News [Update] Kincade Fire Reaches 5 Percent Containment, Burns 21,900 Acres The fire near Geyserville was at 5 percent containment as of Friday morning, and meanwhile meteorologists are warning of an "extreme wind event" starting Saturday night, unlike anything we've had since 2017.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter's Stock Tanks, Tesla's Soars Short-sellers lost over a billion dollars on Tesla stock today after the company reported profits, the SFPD responded to a shooting across from Lowell High, and it was hot hot hot all over the Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beit Rima Readies Cole Valley Location, Will Open Third Spot In Daly City Arabic comfort food hit Beit Rima is getting set to open a second location in the former Burgermeister space in Cole Valley next month, and now we learn that another Burgermeister location in Daly City will become Beit Rima as well.
SF News [Update] PG&E Tower 'Malfunctioned' Right Near Where Kincade Fire Started This seems big. The Chronicle is reporting in late-breaking news that a PG&E transmission tower "malfunctioned near the origin point of the dangerous Kincade Fire." While the cause of the fire is still unknown, this is a terrible development for the utility.
SF News More Wildfires Break Out In Vacaville and Richmond It's Fire Everywhere Day apparently, and on top of vegetation fires on the Marin Coast and in up in Santa Rosa and the major wildfire burning near Geyserville, a fire next to I-80 in Vacaville is causing a traffic backup, and another small fire has broken out near I-580 in Richmond.
SF News Sound Art Installation Simulates the Sinking and Tilting of Millennium Tower A new piece of sound art installed at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) means to mimic and/or satirize the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, and the artists who created it say the piece will remain in place "until the building falls or the building is fixed."
SF News Brush Fire Breaks Out Between Muir and Stinson Beaches Yet another wildfire has broken out Thursday morning, this one on the Marin County coast just south of Stinson Beach.
SF News Kincade Fire Grows To Over 10,000 Acres In Northern Sonoma County, Destroying Homes A fast-moving wildfire began Wednesday night near Geyserville and The Geysers, threatening vineyards, prompting evacuations, and already causing damage to or destroying at least a dozen homes.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: PG&E Field Worker Shot At With Pellet Gun Around 35,000 PG&E customers are without power in the Bay Area, BART had major delays this morning, and more facts emerged in the Laguna Honda patient-abuse case.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reward Offered For Information In Santa Cruz CEO Murder Multiple suspects are still at large in the case of the Oct. 1 murder of Tushar Atre in Santa Cruz, an elderly pedestrian was killed in Oakland this morning, and the victim in Monday night's homicide in the Tenderloin has been identified.
SF News More, Wider-Spread Power Shutoffs Likely Coming To Bay Area Sunday After shutoffs that have already gotten underway in Sonoma and Napa counties and elsewhere Wednesday, with more to begin Wednesday night, weather models suggest windy conditions that could lead to power shutoffs for an even wider swath of Northern California on Sunday and Monday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Smoked Game Hen at Dear Inga Dear Inga is a heartfelt love letter to Eastern Europe, and specifically to chef David Golovin's grandmother, and the three-week-old restaurant has already proven itself a welcome addition to the already food-destination-worthy 18th Street corridor.
