SF News Valley Fire May Have Claimed Up To Five Lives; Second And Third Victims Confirmed We were told on Monday and Tuesday that there was one confirmed death from the swift-moving Valley Fire last week, and that was 72-year-old Barbara McWilliams. Yesterday we learned that a missing 69-year-old
SF News Valley Fire Update: 30 Percent Contained, Man Missing, Badly Burned Cat Survives The devastation via wildfire to our north is now in its fifth day, and the Valley Fire is now growing more slowly, reaching 70,000 acres (over 100 square miles) and 30 percent
SF News More About The Only Fatality In The Valley Fire As It Grows To 67,000 Acres The devastating Valley Fire, which touches three counties Lake, Napa, and Sonoma grew to 67,000 acress from 61,000 since yesterday, and Cal Fire now says it is 15 percent contained. As
SF News Valley Fire Grows To 61,000 Acres, Harbin Hot Springs and 400+ Homes Destroyed, One Death Reported Experts are saying that the Valley Fire is precedent-setting for the ferocity with which it spread over the weekend, creating its own internal wind conditions and taking many residents by surprise including the
SF News Video: Dramatic Escape Through Flames Of Valley Fire Saturday Night The Valley Fire in Lake Napa Counties, which by all accounts moved at record-setting speed into and through the community of Middletown between Saturday and Sunday, grew from 40,000 acres Sunday to
SF News Garage Fire Breaks Out In Lower Haight At Pierce And Waller House fire near Waller and Pierce. Looks like no one hurt. pic.twitter.com/gXB5YDlcNv— Steve Bezek (@SteveBezek) September 10, 2015 The SFFD responded in force at midnight to a fire at Pierce
SF News Muni Bus Bursts Into Flames On 101 @EvanSernoffsky Sure. pic.twitter.com/pOR1VYaAKu— Kyle Anderson (@Talyn) September 8, 2015 A malfunctioning Muni bus snarled commute traffic on southbound 101 in San Francisco this morning, after the vehicle burst into flames.
SF News [Update] 7 Displaced, 1 Hospitalized After 2-Alarm Ashbury Heights Fire Major fire and structural collapse in Ashbury Heights. cc @breakingsfnews @SFGate @HuffPostSF pic.twitter.com/pWywGB1D4z— Joey Hodges (@joeyhodges) September 1, 2015 Firefighters are currently battling a 2-alarm structure fire in the Ashbury
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Torn Apart By Fire, The Riptide Is Fundraising To Support Employees Last week, a 2-alarm fire struck the Outer Sunset haunt the Riptide, a bar frequently highlighted by SFist for its equally warm fireplace and atmosphere. Fire damage has now been estimated at a
SF News Three-Alarm Warehouse Fire In Vallejo Raises Toxic Smoke Concerns #update: #vallejo fire says no more concern of wall falling on 5-600 gal propane tank. Still putting out hotspots pic.twitter.com/RJAWP2ZtLB— Stephanie Chuang (@StephChuang) August 21, 2015 A big fire at
SF News [Updated] Fire In Outer Sunset Closes Riptide Bar, Disrupts Muni Service Photo via SF Firefighters 798/Twitter A fire that broke out on Taraval between 46th and 47th Avenues this morning at 10:15 a.m. has grown to two alarms, and firefighters are
SF News Wildfire Updates: Jerusalem Fire 90 Percent Contained; Rough Fire Grows To 21,000 Acres The national news has, per usual, been making it sound to most of the country like all of California is on fire, and between the 4,000 convicted felons now fighting the fires
SF News Owners Of Mission Building Destroyed By Fire Slapped With 48-Tenant Lawsuit The owners of a Mission building where a January fire killed one and displaced scores of tenants was served with a long-anticipated lawsuit Tuesday, as former residents of the structure claim that the
SF News Jerusalem Fire Now At 16,500 Acres, Spreads To Napa County Winds have whipped the still growing Jerusalem Fire since yesterday, spreading it across the county line so it's now burning in both Lake and Napa Counties. It also grew from 14,000 acres
SF News Jerusalem Fire Grows To 12,000 Acres A quick update on that second Lake County wildfire that broke out Sunday, the footprint of which is likely to overlap with the now almost fully contained Rocky Fire. The Jerusalem Fire, which
SF News Another Lake County Wildfire, The Jerusalem Fire, Breaks Out Right Next To The Rocky Fire To our north in Lake County, just to the south of the Rocky Fire which has ultimately burned 70,000 acres over 12 days and is now 85 percent contained there's now a
SF News Landlord Of Mission Building Destroyed By Fire Could Sell For $20 Million Ravaged by a January fire that killed one man and displaced 65 tenants and dozens of businesses, the 108-year-old building at the corner of 22nd and Mission Streets is now home to little
SF News There Are Now 21 Wildfires Burning In California; Rocky Fire Grows To 60,000 Acres What's turned out to be the most massive wildfire of the season so far, the Rocky Fire that began last Wednesday in Lake County has now spread across two other county lines, Colusa
SF News Photo: Fire Breaks Out At Refinery In Contra Costa County Refinery fire in Rodeo. pic.twitter.com/ywAheBW8Yz— Jason Sutton (@510Jason) August 2, 2015 A flare-up at the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo prompted health officials to issue a warning this afternoon to
SF News Photos: Rocky Fire Nearly Doubles In Size Overnight To 47,000 Acres The Rocky Fire, a massive wildfire about a hundred miles north of the Bay Area, nearly doubled in size overnight and firefighters are barely closer to containing it. Just twelve hours after saying
SF News Fire Updates: Rocky Fire Grows To 8,000 Acres; Big Creek Fire Grows Near Yosemite A wildfire to our north in Lake County that broke out Wednesday afternoon quickly spread to burn 8,000 acres of trees and brush. It's called the Rocky Fire, and the Chron reports
SF News [Update] Wind-Whipped Fire South Of Lake Berryessa Now 80% Contained #WraggFire pic.twitter.com/lsAnhWlSD7— Elizabeth Rogers (@Shescountry_86) July 23, 2015 A fire ignited yesterday and spread quickly in the area south of Lake Berryessa in Napa and Solano Counties, and it
SF News Pleasant Weather Partly To Blame For Fires On Union And Castro Streets San Francisco's current dry, sunny weather is certainly enjoyable! But it also might be partially to blame for two recent fires: one that hit Union Street early this morning, and another that hit
SF News Over A Year After Fire At Dolores And 14th, Residents Still Displaced An anonymous tipster wrote in to report that despite initial reports that only a few people in the six-story building that is 87 Dolores would need to be displaced following an April 2014
SF News Bay Bridge Bursts Into Flames Yet Again, Finger Pointed At Errant Caltrans Crews pic.twitter.com/ZnRsaobhsS— CHP San Francisco (@CHPSanFrancisco) July 15, 2015 Hey, remember how a portion of the Bay Bridge burst into flames on Monday night? It happened again yesterday afternoon at exactly
