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 Air Quality Declines As Winds Move Wildfire Smoke Inland The air quality around the Bay, and particularly for inland towns southeast of the Kincade Fire, will be getting worse throughout the day on Monday as wind patterns shift back to the normal onshore flow.
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 Two New Photos Suggest PG&E At Fault for Tubbs Fire In Santa Rosa With new expert opinions and recently discovered photos, the case is clear(er): PG&E’s power lines likely sparked the Tubbs Fire.
Arts & Entertainment Counting Crows, Spearhead, and Train To Perform Benefit Concerts For Fire Relief In Napa And Sonoma Following on a larger-scale benefit concert for victims of the North Bay wildfires happening November 9 at AT&T Park, a trio of smaller benefit events were just announced by BottleRock Presents,
SF News PG&E 'Recloser' Devices Implicated As Possible Wildfire Cause As Another Lawsuit Is Filed Three more North Bay families are expected to file a lawsuit against PG&E Thursday, implicating the utility in the devastating wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes in Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino
SF News Wildfire-Related Insurance Claims Total More Than $3.3 Billion With the Northern California wildfires now 100% contained as of Tuesday, the investigation into how it began and how much damage it's caused has begun in earnest. According to a report from the
SF News CA Legislators Seek To Block PG&E From Passing Fire Costs On To Customers As PG&E is potentially facing a torrent of litigation in connection with the Northern California wildfires this month, in addition to the costs of repairing or replacing infrastructure and power lines
SF News Thursday Rain Could Cause Toxic Runoff From Wine Country Fires Rain that's predicted for late Thursday and Friday could lead to runoff from fire zones in the North Bay that are still littered with toxic ash and debris containing harmful chemicals. While cleanup
SF News Toxic Ash Looms As Ongoing Health Hazard In Wake Of North Bay Fires The collective North Bay wildfires have moved on from emergency response to the investigation and cleanup phases, as displaced individuals return to their homes to assess the damage done. Chemists and biologists are
SF News Burning Man Group Lends Shipping Container Dorms To House Fire Victims In Santa Rosa The group Burners Without Borders, along with the Burning Man camp called Camp Epic, are launching something in Santa Rosa called Oasis Village, on land that's being offered by a local businessman. The
Arts & Entertainment Dave Matthews, Metallica Sign On For Wildfire Benefit Concert At AT&T Park Nov. 9 It sounds like more names will get added to the lineup for a November 9 benefit concert to raise money for North Bay wildfire relief efforts, but we know for now that Bay
SF News PG&E Was Cited For Multiple Power Line Maintenance Issues In Sonoma County In Recent Years The truth is going to arrive slowly, and perhaps incompletely, in the investigation into the causes of the multiple Northern California wildfires that sprung into deadly strength the night of October 8. But
Arts & Entertainment Huge Concert Fundraiser For Fire Victims Rumored To Be Happening At AT&T Park A large-scale benefit concert is rumored to be in the works for next month at AT&T Park, says Willie Brown in the Chronicle, with all the proceeds going to benefit victims
SF News Full Containment Near But Not Yet Reached In North Bay Wildfires Almost a full two weeks on, the Atlas, Tubbs, Nuns, and Pocket fires continue burning in Napa and Sonoma counties, though significant progress has been made over the course of this week on
SF News Day Around The Bay: Do Those 'No Valuables' Signs On Cars Actually Prevent Break-Ins? A debate popped up on Reddit after somebody posted a photo of a car with one of those "No Valuables Inside" signs that have you may have seen popping up in cars around
SF News Sonoma County Sheriff Blasts ICE And Breitbart For 'Misleading, Inflammatory' Statements About Immigrant Arson Suspect In response to a Breitbart article and a subsequent press release from the federal agency that enforces the country's immigration laws both of which suggested that an undocumented man who was arrested on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood, French Laundry Reopen Following Wildfires Two of the Bay Area's six Michelin three-star restaurants, The Restaurant at Meadowood and The French Laundry, were impacted by the wildfires last week and had to shut down as the entire Napa
SF News Santa Rosa Fears Population Loss As Some Residents Are Being Allowed Back Into Evacuation Zone Residents of the largely burned out Coffey Park neighborhood in Santa Rosa are being allowed back in today to assess damage, collect anything they can find, and grieve. The neighborhood has been under
SF News Trump Finally Tweets About California Wildfires, Has No Plans To Visit After pledging aid on behalf of the federal government to California Governor Jerry Brown, ABC 7 reports that Trump has yet to make any plans to visit any of the areas in Northern
SF News 38-Year-Old Missouri Man Identified As Firefighter Who Died In Napa Crash The contract firefighter who died after his water tanker truck went off the road in Napa early Monday morning has been identified as 38-year-old Garrett Paiz of Missouri. Paiz had come to fight
SF News Senators Feinstein And Harris Take FCC To Task Over Wireless Emergency Alert System Shortcomings Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris are voicing their concerns about the federal Wireless Emergency Alert system currently in place for disaster warnings. They're criticizing the tool for its shortcomings and for its
SF News First Lawsuit Filed Against PG&E Over Wine Country Fires A state senator is suggesting that PG&E will have to be broken up if it turns out to be found guilty of negligence in causing the wildfires that ripped through Northern
SF News Shady Websites Suggest Wildfires Were Started By Mexican Drug Cartels, Illegal Immigrants Citing no actual evidence, a website known for floating conservative-leaning conspiracy theories has reported that Mexican drug cartels are suspected of deliberately setting the multiple wildfires that ravaged wine country and beyond last
