SF News PG&E Agrees to $55 Million Settlement to Make Criminal Charges Disappear in Dixie Fire and Kincade Fire Two settlements for two different wildfires that impacted six different counties will halt several separate criminal investigations, as PG&E will pay $55 million to settle criminal allegations in the Dixie and Kincade fires.
SF News PG&E Slapped with Felony Criminal Charges Over 2019 Kincade Fire The Sonoma County district attorney has charged PG&E with 33 criminal counts — including five felonies — in light of findings that their transmission lines did cause the Kincade Fire.
SF News In the First of Likely Many Lawsuits, Eight Sonoma County Agencies Sue PG&E For Negligence in Kincade Fire Before a final report on the fire has even been finalized by the state, eight agencies in Sonoma County including four city governments have sued PG&E in an effort to recoup damages for impacts on infrastructure and public property.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Line To Blame For Kincade Fire, Cal Fire Says The 2019 Kincade Fire in Sonoma was sparked by a PG&E line according to a Cal Fire investigation, the City of Oakland has settled a lawsuit with Ghost Ship fire victims' families, and the Twitter hack spells scariness for this election season.
SF News PG&E Admits to More Than 200 Damage Incidents That Could Have Started More Wildfires Post-blackout inspections showed 218 cases of busted equipment that could have made this fire season a whole lot worse had they not been turned off.
SF News PG&E Blackouts Now the Subject of Public Utility Commission Investigation PG&E could be fined $100,000 per day for each violation found of failing to properly notify customers and local officials that blackouts were coming, regulators ruled Wednewsday morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Northern California's 2019 Wine Vintage Is Just Fine, Post-Fire Sonoma County wineries, restaurants, and hotels are trying to get the word out that Sonoma wine country escaped mostly unscathed from the Kincade Fire, which was declared 100 percent contained as of Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homeowners In Kincade Fire Zone May Have To Pay For Cleanup The progressive candidates Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston have taken slight leads as ballots keep getting counted, a female bicyclist was struck and severely injured in SF, and a pedestrian struck last weekend in Potrero Hill has died.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Kincade Fire On Path To Full Containment Orinda is considering changing its Airbnb rules, smoke from the Ranch Fire in Tehama County will reach the Bay today, and get out there and vote!
SF News Kincade Fire Containment Rises To 68 Percent As Remaining Hot Spot Burns In Lake County Firefighters added another eight percent to their containment of the Kincade Fire on Thursday and into Friday morning, aided by cool weather and calm winds. And the number of homes destroyed has risen from 141 to 167, as property owners continue to assess and report damage.
SF News Kincade Fire 60 Percent Contained, No Growth Overnight With the winds disappearing, firefighters got a firm handle on the massive Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, which has now burned 120 square miles. Growth has slowed to a crawl, and Cal Fire says there was no growth Wednesday or overnight into Thursday.
SF News Here's What the Kincade Fire Looks Like From Space NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan just tweeted several photos he captured of the smoke from the Kincade Fire as seen from the International Space Station this morning.
SF News Winds Prove Not Catastrophic; Kincade Fire Reaches 30 Percent Containment Fears of an overnight explosion in new fire lines amid intense wind conditions proved unfounded late Tuesday and early Wednesday, and while we aren't out of the woods yet, the Kincade Fire may finally be coming under control.
SF News Celebrity Chefs Cook Up Thousands of Meals For Sonoma Firefighters and Evacuees Traci Des Jardins joins Tyler Florence, Guy Fieri, Chris Cosentino to serve hot gourmet meals with José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds.
SF News Time Magazine Posts Fake-News Tweet About San Francisco Being On Fire The digital-media staffers over at Time Magazine just illustrated the perils of reporting on breaking news via Twitter, without fact-checking, via a mislabeled and mis-captioned video. And ironically, Marc Benioff owns Time now!
SF News Kincade Fire Containment Rises to 15 Percent Ahead of Wind Resurgence Sonoma County's massive Kincade Fire grew to 75,415 acres in its fifth day, growing in footprint by around 9,000 acres, but picking up thousands of acres in containment lines to reach 15 percent containment during relatively calm winds on Monday.
SF News Here's An Auto-Updating Fire Map of Sonoma County and All of California It remains a dynamic situation in northern Sonoma County where the Kincade Fire more than doubled in size Sunday night in terms of acreage burned and burning.
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 [Update] Kincade Fire Grows To 30,000 Acres As 180,000 Sonoma County Residents Evacuate Fueled by the gusty wind conditions that continue to blow through Northern California – with some squalls measured at 80mph – the Kincade Fire has now swelled to over 30,000 acres, forcing 180,000 Sonoma County residents to evacuate.
SF News [Update] Kincade Fire Expands To Over 25,000 Acres, Healdsburg Evacuated Yesterday’s calmer than expected winds, while helpful, weren’t enough to give firefighters the leverage they needed to contain the spreading Sonoma County blaze. Now, 50,000 Healdsburg residents are placed under mandatory evacuations.
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 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 [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 [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 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.
