SF News Cal Fire Investigation Comes Up Short on Evidence, Can't Pinpoint Cause of Last Year's Glass Fire The official cause of the Glass Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties last fall will remain undetermined pending the revelation of more conclusive evidence, and Cal Fire investigators say they have not found enough to make a determination.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 100% Containment as North Bay Braces For More Power Shutoffs The Glass Fire is officially, fully contained as of Tuesday, right on schedule per earlier announcements by Cal Fire. As with other wildfires, it has taken many days than might seem intuitively necessary to get from 97-percent to 100-percent, and here we are.
SF News 'We Can't Keep Living Like This': Dave Eggers Offers Firsthand Account of the Early Hours of the Glass Fire One of the Bay Area's most renowned writers, Dave Eggers, has offered up his own account of the Glass Fire for The New Yorker.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 74% Containment; 1,545 Structures Burned The Glass Fire remains largely under control in Sonoma and Napa counties as we close out its second week since igniting, and Cal Fire reported Friday morning that it has reached 74-percent containment.
SF News Glass Fire 58% Contained; Toll of Destroyed Homes Hits 616 The Glass Fire is largely under control in Napa and Sonoma counties as of Wednesday morning, though several thousand residents remain under evacuation orders. Cal Fire reported reaching 58-percent containment, as damage assessments continue.
SF News Cal Fire Investigates Vigilante Backfire Activity In First Days of Glass Fire Last week in either Napa or Sonoma County, some private citizens not assigned to the firefight apparently took it upon themselves to start lighting backfires to prevent the spread of the Glass Fire — an activity the Cal Fire takes seriously for its potential danger.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Glass Fire Being Called Worst In Napa History, With Hundreds of Homes and at Least 20 Wineries Damaged or Destroyed While fire activity in the Glass Fire continues to be calmer than it was just days ago, the fallout from the fire is still being assessed — and the economic impacts to both the wine industry and Napa and Sonoma counties at large may be far greater than the size of the fire may suggest.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 30% Containment as Some Evacuation Orders Are Lifted Predicted high winds never materialized late last week or over the weekend, and firefighters were able to raise containment levels and tamp down the Glass Fire threat for much of Sonoma County. On the Napa side, Calistoga was able to breathe easy Sunday as the fire shifted east.
SF News Firefighters Still Bracing For High Winds After Calm Night Fighting Glass Fire; Containment Reaches 6 Percent Forecasted gusty winds failed to materialize with the new Red Flag Warning Thursday night, allowing fire crews in the North Bay to beef up containment lines on the Glass Fire and prevent any further structure damage.
SF News Ignition Point Of Glass Fire Identified and It's *Possible* It Wasn't PG&E's Fault Cal Fire investigators appear to have found the general area where the Glass Fire first ignited around 3:30 a.m. on September 27. A PG&E transmission line runs through the area, but an initial investigation has not pointed immediately to PG&E as the likely culprit, for a change.
SF News [Update] New Fire Near Yountville Quickly Contained What's being called the Campbell Fire has just broken out Thursday morning in the vicinity of Oakville Grade Road and Campbell Creek Road in Napa County, just outside of Yountville on the west side of Highway 29.
SF News Glass Fire Continues to Grow As Containment Reaches 5 Percent Overnight Firefighters in Sonoma and Napa counties are bracing for two days of bigger and faster flames as high winds return, but containment on the Glass Fire inched up overnight to reach 5 percent.
SF News Glass Fire Gains 1,800 Acres Overnight As Dry Conditions and Another Red Flag Warning Are on the Horizon Wednesday morning brought news that the Glass Fire had not significantly expanded its footprint compared to the day before, and all but around 14,000 residents have been allowed to return home in Sonoma County.
SF News Glass Fire Grows to 36,000 Acres, Dozens of Structures Confirmed Destroyed The Glass Fire, which remains zero-percent contained as it continues burning in Sonoma and Napa counties, more than tripled in size between Monday and Tuesday, though calmer wind conditions overnight will hopefully lead to some containment today.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Rosa Senior Community Saved From Fire Three people have died in the Zogg Fire in Shasta County, Calistoga is a ghost town right now, the evacuated senior community in east Santa Rosa appears to have been spared from flames, and Oakland has had a disturbing recent spate of homicides.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Parts of Meadowood Resort, Including Michelin Three-Star Restaurant, Burn In Glass Fire In St. Helena Parts of the luxury Meadowood resort caught fire early Monday morning, and despite their best efforts firefighters were unable to save the restaurant building after they drained the pool and ran out of water.
SF News PG&E Power Outages Hitting NorCal Hard, Nearly 100,000 Homes May Be Without Power as Utility's Share Price Drops It’s that time of year, as the Napa and Sonoma fires have knocked out some 37,000 homes’ power, planned outages hit another 65,000 homes in the Sierras, and even Oakland and SF have a few areas without power.
SF News Glass Fire Merges With Sonoma Fire, Burns 11,000 Acres and Prompts Mass Evacuation The Glass Fire grew at least fourfold overnight as it merged with two other fires that it may have sparked — the Shady Fire and the Boysen Fire — and gusty offshore winds continue to help it grow to the south and west.
