SF News Smoky Air Comes to SF From Oregon and NorCal Wildfires If you smell smoke outside today in San Francisco, it's not your imagination. But it is blowing in from hundreds of miles up the coast.
SF News First Red Flag Warning of This Fire Season Announced For Parts of North Bay, Power Shutoffs Possible A swath of the North Bay and much of the Sacramento Valley are under a Red Flag Warning starting Tuesday night and lasting through Wednesday evening, as the first bout of threatening fire winds arrives this season.
Business & Tech Facebook Taking Heat for Blocking News About Wildfires From Canadian Users A new Canadian law requiring Facebook to compensate news outlets for using their content has led the social media company to just block news article posts outright, which has unintended consequences as wildfires continue to rage in Canada.
SF News Smoke From NorCal Fires Beginning to Impact Bay Area Air Quality It's that time of year again, and wildfire smoke primarily coming from lightning-caused fires that broke out last week in far Northern California is now starting to impact air quality in the Bay Area.
SF News Head Fire In Siskiyou County Grows to Over 3,000 Acres, Triggers Evacuations The largest of over a dozen lightning-caused wildfires in far northern California has now prompted an evacuation order for 325 square miles, in an area of Klamath National Forest, west of Yreka.
SF News Hawaii Fire Update: Maui Wildfires Become Deadliest in Modern US History As Death Toll Reaches 93 Only 2 out of the 93 victims have been identified, and authorities are asking families for DNA to aid identification. They also warn that the death toll will climb as the search continues.
SF News Hawaiian Couple Visiting Bay Area Lost Everything In Wildfires, Including Dogs Trapped In House A couple featured on KTVU Wednesday frantically trying to get back to their home in Lahaina did make it home, only to find the place in charred ruins, and that their two dogs and a cat perished inside the house.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Mayor London Breed Evacuated From Maui The death toll in the Maui wildfire has risen to 36; SF Mayor London Breed was on a personal vacation on Maui when the fire struck and she evacuated to Oahu; and the current COVID test-positivity rate in California could be quite high if Walgreens data is any indication.
SF News Hawaii Wildfires Have Killed at Least 36, Burned More Than 1,000 Acres, Forcing Mass Evacuations Apocalyptic scenes from Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii, as the islands have suddenly been consumed in flames as hurricane-force winds spread brush fires, and people were driven to jump into the ocean to escape the overwhelming smoke and flames.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oregon Fire to Cause Some Hazy Skies Around the Bay There's a push to name a cable car after Tony Bennett; smoke from a wildfire burning in Oregon is likely to cause some haze around the Bay; and Rudy Giuliani has admitted to defaming two election workers in 2020.
SF News Wildfire Season Already? Four Fires This Weekend In Bay Area and Beyond Spur Concerns This weekend's Snell Fire in Napa County is now 100% contained after burning 103 acres, but despite this year’s rainy winter, a weekend of several NorCal fires has officials warning that precautions are still very much necessary.
SF News Judge Rules PG&E Can Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in 2020 Zogg Fire PG&E had tried to get out of any criminal charges over four deaths in the 2020 Zogg Fire, but a Shasta County judge has just ruled that the utility can be taken to trial for involuntary manslaughter and a slew of other charges.
SF News Mosquito Fire Quickly Grows to Largest CA Wildfire of the Year, at 64,000 Acres and Counting Between Wednesday and Thursday morning, the Mosquito Fire burning in Placer and El Dorado counties grew around 14,000 acres as firefighters focused on saving the town of Foresthill on the fire's western front.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Dutch Fire Breaks Out In Placer County Near Mosquito Fire The Mosquito Fire entered the community of Foresthill on Tuesday and threatened many structures, a second smaller fire broke out nearby in Placer County, and four people were shot in a chaotic scene in East Oakland.
SF News Mosquito Fire Nears 50,000 Acres, Now 18% Contained The Mosquito Fire, now burning for a week in Placer and El Dorado counties, quickly overtook the SoCal Fairview Fire as the largest fire currently burning in the state, and as of this morning reached 49,761 acres.
SF News Mosquito Fire Grows to Over 33,000 Acres, Becomes Largest Currently Burning CA Wildfire As of Saturday afternoon, the Mosquito Fire has burned 33,754 acres — with still 0% of the blaze contained and now threatens 3,666 structures — which makes it the largest fire currently burning in the state.
SF News Mosquito Fire Grows to 14,000 Acres, Jumps Into El Dorado County, Begins Impacting Tahoe Air Quality A wildfire that broke out Tuesday in Placer County, west of Lake Tahoe, grew significantly on Thursday and overnight, aided by ongoing hot and dry conditions. And it has begun ruining the air quality for late-summer pleasure-seekers around the Lake Tahoe basin.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Brush Fire Near Martinez Prompts Brief Evacuation Scare A Monday evening brush fire in the hills near Martinez prompted an evacuation warning but was quickly contained, it hit 97 degrees in SF on Monday breaking an earlier record, and 18 people died in vehicle crashes statewide over the holiday weekend.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Hot Weather Fuels Wildfires Around the Bay This week's heatwave is expected to test California's power grid once again, a 50-acre wildfire was threatening a subdivision in Dublin on Monday, and Apple is now saying employees need to be back in the office three days per week after Labor Day.
SF News McKinney Fire Death Toll Rises to Four, Containment Lines Strengthen Outside Yreka The McKinney Fire, burning in a remote part of northernmost Northern California, has claimed at least four lives, after two more sets of human remains were found in residences along Highway 96.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Bodies Found In Car In Wake of McKinney Fire The monkeypox vaccine clinic at SF General is back open, two bodies were found in a car in a driveway in the McKinney Fire zone, and one person was shot and wounded near Civic Center on Sunday afternoon.
SF News Oak Fire Smoke Floats to Tahoe, Not Bay Area, So Far An air quality advisory issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has been extended to Thursday, and we may still see some haze from the drifting smoke of the Oak Fire here around the Bay. But so far, it hasn't happened as predicted.
SF News Truck Fire In Sonoma County Sparks One-Acre Wildfire; Firefighters Quickly Contain It Due to Favorable Conditions A vehicle fire in Cloverdale caused a bit of panic Wednesday afternoon as Sonoma County braces for another dramatic fire season still ahead.
SF News Growing Washburn Fire More Than Doubles in Size, Threat to Nearby Giant Sequoias Increases The Washburn Fire in Yosemite National Park measures over 1,800 acres as of Sunday afternoon — more than doubling in size from the day prior — and remains completely uncontained, extending ever so slightly now closer to Mariposa Grove... where some 500 mature giant sequoias are rooted.
SF News Amador County Wildfire Raging at Nearly 3,500 Acres, About 15,000 People Are Without Power A sudden wildfire in Amador County forced nearly 100 July 4th beachgoers to coop up inside a PG&E power plant for safety on Monday afternoon and evening, and the fire has since grown exponentially in size.
