SF News Yosemite Fire Grows to 2,700 Acres, Threatens Giant Sequoias This year's sure-to-be-dramatic fire season rages on with our next main event, the El Portal Fire at the western edge of Yosemite National Park and in Stanislaus National Forest. It began Saturday and
SF News SF Fire Crews Find Woman Dead In Possible Hoarding Situation One woman is dead after an early-morning fire in a San Francisco apartment that displayed "evidence of hoarding," the San Francisco Fire Department says. At 5:10 a.m. Friday, fire crews were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Restaurant Manresa Suffers Major Fire In Los Gatos The Michelin two-starred restaurant Manresa, arguably one of the most influential and renowned restaurants in the Bay Area, suffered a two-alarm fire last night in its kitchen that is sure to shutter the
SF News Butts Canyon Fire Now 90 Percent Contained; Monticello Fire Breaks Out On Other Side of Lake Berryessa [Updated] Thankfully, that wildfire up in Napa County, dubbed the Butts Canyon Fire, is looking a lot more under control as we get into this holiday weekend. It remains a 4300-acre blaze, the same
SF News Butts Canyon Fire Update: Now At 4,300 Acres, Still 30 Percent Contained Between Tuesday and this morning, the wildfire in northern Napa County has grown from 3,200 to 4,300 acres, but firefighters have been able to maintain a 30-percent containment level over the
SF News Napa County Wildfire Scorches 3200 Acres And Counting In One Day A wildfire that broke out around noon yesterday in Pope Valley and Butts Canyon, northwest of Lake Berryessa in northern Napa County, has grown quickly in the 21 hours since, burning a reported
SF News SoMa Arsonist Sounds Crazy, Scary Not shockingly, the firebug the police arrested on Wednesday for setting over a dozen small fires in SoMa and the Mission sounds a little loony. ABC7 caught up with 47-year-old arson suspect Anthony
SF News Police Arrest And Identify Arson Suspect [Update] The SFPD says they have caught a man they believe is the SoMa firebug responsible for a string of over a dozen fires, some of them in dumpsters and many around construction sites,
SF News SFPD Releases Photos Of SoMa Arson Suspect The SFPD this morning released photos of a man they're looking for in connection to the dozen or so fires that have been set in the last several weeks. Stills from surveillance cameras
SF News Arsonist Strikes Four More Times In SoMa And Mission That series of suspicious fires, likely all started by the same individual and typically centering around construction sites in SoMa, continued over the weekend with four fires on Sunday including three in SoMa
SF News Market Street In Castro Closed After Semi Crashes Into Funeral Home, Starts Fire Early Thursday morning in the Castro, a frozen yogurt truck crashed into the Arthur J Sullivan & Company Funeral Home on Market Street, sparking a blaze. As of 7 a.m., Market Street
SF News Five-Alarm Mission Bay Blaze Blamed On Welder Though they can't identify a specific worker as the culprit in the March 11 fire that destroyed that under-construction condo development in Mission Bay, the investigator's report into the blaze concludes that the
SF News Firefighters Put Out Three Small, Concurrent Fires This A.M. What's with all the fire lately? In a twenty-minute span this morning, between 6:10 and 6:30 a.m., three fires broke out within a mile and a half of each other,
SF News BREAKING: 3-Alarm Fire In Duboce Triangle [Updates] A three-alarm fire has broken out and spread to at least two residential buildings on Walter Street off of Duboce Park. Emergency_In_SF reports that the roof of the building that originally
SF News Firefighters Battling Blaze In Bayview [Updated] Firefighters at ardath and Hudson in San Fran. Single unit fire. Some residents evacuated. No injuries tho pic.twitter.com/bRUloodFqO— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) April 22, 2014 Over on the 60 block of
SF News PG&E In Federal Court Today Over San Bruno Disaster The aftermath of the 2010 gas pipe explosion in San Bruno that took the lives of 8 people continues today as PG&E officials appear in federal court this morning to face
SF News And Now, A Rescued Tabby Reunites With Owner After Dolores Fire The fine firefighters of San Francisco rescued this scared little fella from a burning apartment building on Tuesday. As SFist reported earlier, SFFD was especially good at making sure all the building's pets
SF News No Cats Injured, Nine People Displaced After Fire At 14th & Dolores Residents of the six-story building that suffered that two-alarm fire yesterday at 87 Dolores Street will likely be allowed back in their homes today after power is restored to the building all but
SF News [Update] Fire On Dolores Now Under Control [UPDATE: We're hearing word that the fire is now under control.] A fire is burning out of control on the top floor of an apartment building at 14th and Dolores. At least one
SF News SF's Emergency Water System Probably Not Earthquake-Ready In the wake of that major fire in Mission Bay on March 11, in which firefighters tapped into the city's not widely known, 100-year-old, high-pressure emergency water system, the Chron has done some
SF News Firefighters Talk About Battling Tuesday's Mission Bay Blaze "We don't get this type of fire every day," said fire chief Joanne Hayes-White in a news conference on Wednesday. "But we train for this type of conflagration, and we were up to
SF News Mission Bay Fire: The Morning After View from 4th and Long Bridge, SF of apartment building under construction where hot spots are still flaring up. pic.twitter.com/M7oIfdpQg2— Jenna Lane (@jennalane) March 12, 2014 The morning after a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Vess Cola Sign Revealed On Side Of Fire Damaged Building Richmond Blog and David Gallagher bring your attention to an old Vess Cola sign revealed on the side of a building damaged in a fire at Clement and 12th Avenue. Richmond Blog reports:
SF News BREAKING: Three-Alarm Fire In Bayview [Updated] Update 1:30: It turns out that building was not a auto shop, but a maintenance shop. ABC 7's Wayne Freedman reports, "Garage was a maintenance shop, not a body shop, says Operations
SF News Residents Escape Two-Alarm Blaze In The Mission On Stevenson Street A firefighter was injured in the Mission District last night after battling a two-alarm blaze. The fire occurred a little before 6 a.m. on the 1400 block of Stevenson. "The firefighter was
