SF News Seven Victims Identified In Yolo County Fireworks Warehouse Blast, Four Were Bay Area Residents Of the seven people who died in last week's explosion and fire at Devastating Pyrotechnics in Yolo County, two were residents of San Francisco and two were residents of the East Bay city of San Pablo.
SF News Multiple Law Enforcement Groups Raid SF Home Linked to Yolo County Fireworks Warehouse Owner After last week’s Yolo County fireworks warehouse explosion killed seven people, an Inner Richmond home linked to the warehouse owner was raided Tuesday by SFPD, Yolo County Sheriff’s deputies, and the Sacramento Sheriff's Bomb Squad.
SF News Illegal Fireworks Spark Dozens of Bay Area Fires on July 4th, Injuring Several and Killing Two Dogs Illegal fireworks ignited dozens of fires across the Bay Area on the Fourth of July — from Oakland and Alameda to Antioch and San Jose — with Oakland Fire Department responding to more than 60 fires.
SF News July Fourth Constitutional: Expect Fog to Mar the Fireworks In SF The SF fireworks at Fisherman's Wharf will likely, again, be obscured by fog; a citywide scavenger hunt that happened last summer is happening again; and Trump said something antisemitic and then claimed ignorance of the term.
SF News Fireworks Explosion Inside Hayward Home Leaves Two In Critical Condition on Eve of the Fourth The first of what will sadly likely not be the last local stories this weekend about casualties stemming from illegal fireworks arrives out of Hayward, where two people are reportedly in critical condition from fireworks exploding inside a home.
SF News How a Dozen Legal Fireworks Stores In Nevada Power California’s Illegal Fireworks Craze If you see illegal fireworks this weekend, they are almost certainly from one of about 13 perfectly legal fireworks stores in Nevada. And a look at these stores’ Yelp pages shows that almost all of their reviews are from California residents.
SF News One Confirmed Dead, Three of Seven Missing People Identified in Yolo County Fireworks Warehouse Explosion One person has been confirmed dead after Tuesday’s NorCal fireworks warehouse disaster, and now we have the identities of a few of those still missing, and it turns out the name of the fireworks company was Devastating Pyrotechnics.
Arts & Entertainment Fireworks Shows Getting Canceled in San Jose and Elsewhere After Yolo County Supplier Explosion, Due to Lost Supplies The list is likely to mount of Bay Area cities whose annual July Fourth fireworks shows are being impacted by Tuesday's explosion at a commercial fireworks supplier in Yolo County.
SF News [Update] Explosion Leads to Massive Fire at NorCal Fireworks Warehouse, Seven Reported Missing A massive fire broke out at a fireworks warehouse in Yolo County, in the small town of Esparto on Tuesday evening, sparked by an explosion, just days ahead of July Fourth celebrations.
SF News Big Fireworks Show Near North Beach Over the Weekend Was For Private Corporate Anniversary Party An elaborate, 12-minute, professional fireworks spectacular that took many SF residents by surprise last Saturday night turns out to have been a private show for which advance notice wasn't given to the public.
Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Chinatown Pride Silent Disco and Drag Procession This weekend: Some Bay to Breakers runners didn't get their medals at the finish line; Last week: A treasure hunt, a time capsule, a spider monkey, and two rattlesnakes; This week: a ton of free, live music and Chinatown Pride.
SF News Woman Injured By Firecracker During Lurie Inauguration Celebration It seems the festivities Wednesday didn't go off entirely smoothly in Chinatown, with news that a woman was injured and possibly multiple people were struck by a string of firecrackers that were lit outside a celebratory banquet.
SF News Day Around the Bay: McLaren Park Grass Fire Sparked By Illegal Firework An illegal firework sparked a grass fire Sunday night in McLaren Park; Amici's East Coast Pizzeria is closing its last SF location; and President Biden condemned the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity.
SF News Waymo Self-Driving Vehicle Vandalized, Set on Fire in San Francisco Chinatown Saturday Night A group of vandals surrounded and tagged an empty autonomous vehicle in Chinatown, then set of a firework inside the car that set the entire car ablaze.
SF Politics Projection Pranksters Hit Ferry Building During New Year’s Fireworks, Mock Mayor Breed, Elon Musk, Trump Some “projection activists” did a number on the SF Ferry Building just before the clock struck midnight for the fireworks show Sunday night, briefly displaying “STFU Musk” and other messages hammering Donald Trump and London Breed.
SF News Person Killed In Fireworks Accident on Treasure Island A person died early Monday in a fireworks mishap on Treasure Island, less than an hour into the new year.
SF News Mission District Fireworks Mayhem Leads To Late-Night Riot-Gear Police Skirmish The predictable onslaught of illegal Mission District July 4 fireworks displays turned into a hour-long melee between police and various skateboarders and sideshow aficionados, though the scene did not get as violent as last year’s Independence Day hullabaloo.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Yep, It'll Be Another Foggy Fourth The forecast is for fog and marine layer to obscure lots of fireworks displays again; there's a major backup in processing passport applications at the State Department; and the former Harvey's in the Castro will become a new nightclub.
SF News Three Juveniles Hospitalized Following Fireworks-Related Injuries at Ocean Beach Saturday Night Around 8 p.m., a group of about 30 youths on Ocean Beach were setting off fireworks, when three people got hurt, two of them with serious injuries.
SF News Those Fireworks Over the Bay Wednesday Night Were For a Movie Shoot Some people in SF and the East Bay heard the booming of fireworks, and some had the pleasure of watching an impromptu show over Treasure Island Wednesday night. But what holiday was this for?
SF News Brush Fire Breaks Out In Corona Heights Park — Second SF Hills Brush Fire In Two Days Stop lighting San Francisco on fire please! The last thing we need this fire season is wildfire on our actual doorstep in SF proper, but we've had two of them, likely both caused by fireworks, in just the last two days.
SF News Bay Area Fire Departments Kept Very Busy By July 4 Fireworks, Which Caused Hundreds of Fires Hundreds of fires caused by illegal fireworks (and illegal bonfires in the middle of streets) peppered the entire Bay Area Monday night, leading to some very busy firefighters across the region.
SF News SFPD Says 12 Officers Injured Amid Hostile July 4th Crowd In Mission In an echo of an incident reported after the Warriors' NBA Championship celebrations in the Mission District three weeks ago, the SFPD says that a dozen officers sustained injuries from a hostile crowd shooting off fireworks and continuing to party after midnight Tuesday morning.
Arts & Entertainment The Man Behind SF’s Official Fireworks Show Explains How the Pyro Magic Happens More than two dozen fireworks technicians from a company called Pyro Spectaculars are setting up SF’s July 4 display as you read this, and their boss opens up about how his Rialto-based company will execute nearly 400 fireworks shows nationwide.
SF News Here's Hoping That Illegal Fireworks Don't Light the State On Fire This Weekend Cal Fire has put out its annual warning, but in this particularly drought-parched year, conditions are ripe for wildfires caused by illegal fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend.
