SF News Newsom Enacts New Fire Shelter Strategies to Avoid COVID-19 Outbreaks We’re now feeling the full fury of coronavirus and wildfire crises happening at the same time, and the state is scrambling to make sure COVID outbreaks don’t hit thousands of shelter evacuees.
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
SF News SFFD Swiftly Contains Smoky Wildfire At Lands End Fire spotted from baker beach @sffdpio pic.twitter.com/amF7IDMntZ— Rheal (@Madebyrheal) October 25, 2017 Firefighters quickly managed a wildfire in San Francisco Tuesday night, even though they faced numerous obstacles on the
SF News Remembering The Rippeys, Married 75 Years, Who Perished Together Sunday In The Atlas Fire Most of us in the Bay Area were still unaware that wildfires were burning in Napa County Sunday night when Charles Rippey, age 100, and Sara Rippey, age 98, died together when their
SF News Santa Rosa's Safari West Works To Save African Animals While Area Shelters Take On More Pets Today is World Rhino Day! Help Save them and #BuyInformed: https://t.co/r2vGrfvLMR #SavingSpecies Photo: Adi Ringer pic.twitter.com/8auhHOTyzH— Safari West (@SafariWest) September 22, 2017 While animal shelters in Sonoma
SF News Historic Round Barn, Arts Center, PGA Golf Course Among Places Destroyed By North Bay Wildfires The death toll is now tragically up to 15, and sure to go higher as at least 150 remain missing in 17 separate firesburning across Napa, Mendocino, Sonoma, and five other California counties.
SF News Smoke From NorCal Fires Gives SF Gorgeous Sunrise, Health Hazards Galore A post shared by Bruce Getty (@gettyphotography) on Oct 10, 2017 at 8:12am PDT As we head into a second full day of out-of-control wildfires across Northern California, residents in areas of
SF News Emerald Fire Breaks Out Overnight In South Lake Tahoe, Forces Evacuation Of 500 Homes A wildfire that has already scorched 200 acres broke out overnight in the area of Camp Richardson, near Cascade Lake and Emerald Bay in South Lake Tahoe. As the Associated Press reports, the
SF News Pot Grow Investigated As Source Of Loma Fire #LomaFire [update] 10 miles NW of Morgan Hill (Santa Clara County) is now 1085 acres and 5% contained. https://t.co/7WH7ZEHR5G pic.twitter.com/YeL5em6CmH— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) September 27, 2016
SF News Soberanes Fire Fells Trees In Big Sur, Closes Highway 1 Monday We learned Friday that the large and still growing Soberanes Fire was likely to wreak some havoc for tourism in particular traffic on Highway 1, which is the only road in and out
SF News [Update] Federal Funds Granted To Fight Clayton Fire In Lake County Just In - #ClaytonFire in Lower Lake area (Lake Co) remains 3,000 acres & 5% contained. 100+ structures destroyed. pic.twitter.com/aoUDG6HqUb— CAL FIRE PIO Berlant (@CALFIRE_PIO) August 15, 2016
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soberanes Fire Smoke May Destroy Monterey County Wine Vintage Another unfortunate impact of the still growing, 10-day-old Soberanes Fire is that it could end up destroying the 2016 vintage for some Monterey County wines. Smoke from wildfires has been known to do
SF News President Obama Declares Valley Fire Major Disaster In order to make way for federal assistance for home repairs, temporary housing, and other programs to help people affected by the Valley Fire, President Barack Obama declared yesterday that the circumstances in
SF News Tassajara Fire Near Carmel Burns Over 1,000 Acres; Valley Fire Now 70 Percent Contained Firefighters working over the weekend brought the Valley Fire further under control, to 70 percent containment, after it has now burned an area of 75,881 acres (119 square miles) in Lake, Sonoma,
SF News Valley Fire Update: 30 Percent Contained, Man Missing, Badly Burned Cat Survives The devastation via wildfire to our north is now in its fifth day, and the Valley Fire is now growing more slowly, reaching 70,000 acres (over 100 square miles) and 30 percent
SF News Harbin Hot Springs Vows To Rebuild As we learn about the current, as-yet-uncontained progress of the Valley Fire to our north, many Bay Area fans of Harbin Hot Springs continue to mourn its apparent loss on social media. But
SF News Photos: Rocky Fire Nearly Doubles In Size Overnight To 47,000 Acres The Rocky Fire, a massive wildfire about a hundred miles north of the Bay Area, nearly doubled in size overnight and firefighters are barely closer to containing it. Just twelve hours after saying
SF News [Updated] 100 Homes In Antioch Evacuated As 300-Acre Wildfire Looms #antiochfire flames now perilously close to homes pic.twitter.com/NqEZr3jGnb— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) June 25, 2015 As the Chronicle and CBS SF report, a 300-acre wildfire in the Contra Loma Regional Park
SF News King Fire Grows To 95,000 Acres The King Fire has continued to grow in El Dorado County, and has now consumed over 95,000 acres or 150 square miles of forest, due east of Sacramento in the Sierra Foothills.
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 Morgan Fire On Mount Diablo Now 45 Percent Contained Thankfully the wildfire burning on the back side of Mount Diablo appears to be somewhat under control as of this morning, with a total of 3,243 acres having been burned. It's now
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Mount Diablo Fire Fight Spyglass Hill snapped this excellent shot of a plane dropping retardant on top of the Mount Diablo fire now in progress.
SF News Video: Gorgeous, Harrowing Rim Fire Time Lapse This time lapse of the Rim Fire now in progress, shot from the Crane Flate helicopter base from Glacier Point, was posted by the National Park Service. It shows the effects, both disastrous
SF News North Bay Fires Bring Smoke To The City There's something in the air today, and it's not just hot-weather optimism: wildfires in the North Bay have brought smoke and a pleasant campfire-y aroma into the city today. Hundreds of firefighters continue
SF News Firefighters Battle Flames, Tarantulas As firefighters tame flames in a 375-acre wildfire burning in Mount Diablo State Park near Curry Canyon, they are also dealing with tarantulas. (Oh dear!) The firefighters, it seems, "also had to deal
