SF Politics New Bernie Sanders Ad Specifically Comes After PG&E A new three-minute ad from the Bernie Sanders campaign is squarely aimed at Democratic voters in California, and makes the case that only Sanders will have what it takes to fight corporate interests like PG&E that value profits over human life.
SF News Gavin Newsom Rejects PG&E Bankruptcy Plan Pacific Gas and Electric has until Tuesday to submit another revised restructuring plan to emerge from bankruptcy after what the Sacramento Bee calls a "stunning rebuke" by Governor Gavin Newsom.
SF News Audit Finds PG&E Diverted $123 Million From Power Line 'Undergrounding' PG&E can’t account for what it actually did with that $123 million, which was supposed to be spent on building underground power lines less prone to starting wildfires.
SF News PG&E Reaches $13.5 Billion Settlement for Victims of Wildfires, Ghost Ship Fire PG&E announced Monday that it had reached a settlement valued around $13.5 billion to compensate victims of wildfires in 2015, 2017, and 2018 that have been linked to the utility's equipment, as well as to families of the victims of the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland.
SF News Elected Officials Statewide Push for Consumer Takeover of PG&E PG&E would be radically transformed into a customer-owned co-op under a new plan being pushed by more than 100 California elected officials.
SF News Despite No Weather Changes, PG&E Changes Its Mind Again About Alameda County, Lamorinda Shutoffs The messaging game remains fraught with flip-flopping over at PG&E as the company announced Tuesday afternoon that conditions are "changing" and some 12,000 power customers in Alameda County who were told Monday they'd be losing power Wednesday are now not expected to do so.
SF News Camp Fire Anniversary Marked With Stories Of Rebuilding, and Mystery Man's Remains One year ago today, the ferocious Camp Fire broke out in the forested hills east of Concow and Paradise, California. And marking the anniversary the local media has published dozens of stories checking back in on the survivors and the rebuilding effort.
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 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 New Round of PG&E Blackouts Likely To Begin Tuesday At Noon A fresh round of public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) is expected to begin Tuesday afternoon and last until Wednesday morning — and for some who lost power over the weekend, they may not be seeing it turned on again until this next "wind event" dies down.
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 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 Two Sunday Fires In Lafayette Appear To Have Been Caused By PG&E Equipment Despite the power being shut off to surrounding areas in the East Bay on Sunday, live wires in an area that was not part of the shutoff in Lafayette appear to have been the cause of two separate fires.
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 Fires Erupt Along Highway 24 Prompting Evacuation Order For Lafayette Two small fires began Sunday afternoon on either side of Highway 24 in Contra Costa County, and county fire officials say the fires are "rapidly expanding" in the current winds.
SF News Fire In Vallejo Jumps Across Carquinez Strait To Crockett, Shuts Down Bridge A wildfire that broke out Sunday morning near the Maritime Academy in Vallejo is now burning in both Solano and Contra Costa counties after jumping across the Carquinez Strait. Both the bridge and I-80 have been closed as a result.
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 More Wildfires Break Out In Vacaville and Richmond It's Fire Everywhere Day apparently, and on top of vegetation fires on the Marin Coast and in up in Santa Rosa and the major wildfire burning near Geyserville, a fire next to I-80 in Vacaville is causing a traffic backup, and another small fire has broken out near I-580 in Richmond.
