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
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
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
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 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
