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.
SF News Brush Fire Breaks Out Between Muir and Stinson Beaches Yet another wildfire has broken out Thursday morning, this one on the Marin County coast just south of Stinson Beach.
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.
SF News One-Acre Brush Fire Near Lake Merced Sends Smoke Over SF A small vegetation fire broke out Sunday morning near Lake Merced that prompted alerts and a quick response from the San Francisco Fire Department.
SF News 500-Acre Fire In American Canyon Wraps Around Neighborhood A brush fire broke out Sunday afternoon in the hills above American Canyon in Napa County which sent embers down into an area along a residential neighborhood where neighbors fought flames with garden hoses.
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.
SF News Missouri Man Allegedly Flew To South Bay To Start Wildfires If any kind of wildfire arson case is liable to incite rage in any Californian, what about the case of an alleged arson tourist who apparently flew here just to set the state on fire?
SF News A Jury Now Will Decide If PG&E Was Responsible For the Tubbs Fire In wake of PG&E’s long list of financial and judicial woes, the presiding judge of the utility company’s mounting bankruptcy case has, as of yesterday, allowed a state-appointed jury to decide if the electrical company’s equipment was the cause of the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
SF News PG&E Tells All Customers To Prepare For Multi-Day Blackouts; Sacramento Pushes Back Late summer and fall in parts of Northern California could be eerily silent and dark as PG&E is preparing us for the potential of week-long blackouts to prevent wildfires.
SF News Camp Fire Death Toll Rises To 86 As Elderly Man Succumbs To His Wounds The death toll in last November's Camp Fire just rose by one after 72-year-old Paul Ernest of Paradise succumbed to complications from burns that he got trying to escape the fire with his wife. Ernest had been hospitalized ever since the fire.
SF News Fire Season Anxieties Rise With Latest National Forecast Showing NorCal Fire Danger Rising While the relatively low number of wildfires across Northern California in July may seem like a good thing, a forecast from the National Interagency Fire Center suggests the opposite.
SF News Wildfire In Furthest NorCal Explodes Past 10,000 Acres Overnight A windstorm Monday night took a small, smoldering wildfire near the Oregon border and turned it into the largest blaze this fire season in California — though so far no structures have been burned.
SF News New Surveillance Video Puts PG&E Back in the Blame-Game for the 2017 Tubbs Fire The Tubbs Fire in and around Santa Rosa in October 2017 was deemed to be the only large scale Wine Country wildfire not caused by PG&E-owned equipment — but recently unearthed surveillance footage has CalFire investigators thinking otherwise.
SF News Wildfire Season Already Proving Costly and Stressful As NorCal Fires Begin To Arrive Contra Costa County has been deemed one of the high-risk “hot zones” in the state for wildfires, while thrice-burnt Lake County had two new wildfires just this past weekend, leaving everyone on edge.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Heatwave Brings Wildfires The heat continues and today is another Spare the Air Day, a high-speed chase involving San Jose police ended with one person dead, and a history of Pebble Beach.
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
