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
SF News Bear Fire In Santa Cruz Mountains Reaches 30% Containment, Some Evacuation Orders Lifted First Responder to the #BearFire. California feels a little End of Days this morning. Stay safe good people. pic.twitter.com/PoeNAOlvNQ— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) October 18, 2017 300 structures remain under threat
SF News Trump Finally Tweets About California Wildfires, Has No Plans To Visit After pledging aid on behalf of the federal government to California Governor Jerry Brown, ABC 7 reports that Trump has yet to make any plans to visit any of the areas in Northern
SF News 38-Year-Old Missouri Man Identified As Firefighter Who Died In Napa Crash The contract firefighter who died after his water tanker truck went off the road in Napa early Monday morning has been identified as 38-year-old Garrett Paiz of Missouri. Paiz had come to fight
SF News Shady Websites Suggest Wildfires Were Started By Mexican Drug Cartels, Illegal Immigrants Citing no actual evidence, a website known for floating conservative-leaning conspiracy theories has reported that Mexican drug cartels are suspected of deliberately setting the multiple wildfires that ravaged wine country and beyond last
SF News Northern California Wildfire Death Toll Climbs To 42 As Six Firefighters Are Injured Battling Santa Cruz Blaze Cal Fire projected that the Central LNU Complex wildfires still burning in Northern California would be contained by Friday, and for now, those projections seem to be on track. It's a great bit
SF News Firefighters Continue To Battle Growing Oakmont Fire As Some Evacuation Orders Lifted The latest reports coming from Cal Fire say that evacuation orders are being lifted in some parts of Sonoma County, including areas south of the Oakmont neighborhood, despite the Oakmont Fire's continued growth
SF News Video: Watch A Berkeley Fire Crew React As They Approach The Tubbs Fire In Its First Hours A video that puts in perspective the swiftness and vastness of the devastation that first responders encountered in the early hours of the wine country wildfires one week ago is this one, from
SF News East Bay Is 'Overdue' For Wildfire Of Its Own, Say Experts As fire crews continue to battle several wildfires in Northern California, the East Bay begins to make plans for a potential firestorm that, according to one UC Berkeley assistant professor, is very overdue.
SF News Largest North Bay Wildfires Reach 60 To 80 Percent Containment #OakmontFire [update] E side of Hwy 12 near Oakmont community (Sonoma County) is now 1,029 acres and 27% contained. https://t.co/rJdgLud5km pic.twitter.com/C8SZ8T6ePd— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) October
SF News New Fire Breaks Out In Santa Cruz Mountains, Threatens At Least 100 Homes Firefighters are battling a 125 acre fire off Bear Creek Rd, SW of San Jose (San Mateo Co). #BearFire Evacs in place https://t.co/p4pDI6YQyb pic.twitter.com/zPMdCHL7Wh— CAL FIRE (@CAL_
SF News Those Who Lost Their Lives In Wine Country Fires Include Disabled Woman, Dozens Of Retirees One week after a fast-moving wildfire tore through several neighborhoods in Santa Rosa just as multiple other fires were igniting in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Lake, Yuba and several other counties, we are getting
SF News Woman Who Survived Las Vegas Shooting Loses Home To Fire In Santa Rosa A woman who escaped the mass shooting in Las Vegas two weeks ago came home to Santa Rosa only to barely escape the flames there, and lose the house she was sharing with
SF News One Week In, Evacuation Shelters For The Fire-Displaced Become Unpleasant Long-Term Homes The situation for many of the thousands of evacuees who remain displaced by wildfires in Northern California is an unhappy one for more reasons than the loss of homes and neighbors. Evacuation shelters
SF News Haunting New Drone Footage Reveals Destruction Left In Wake Of Tubbs Fire Though drones have been banned from flying over Santa Rosa's Coffey Park for the past week or so, CBS 5 managed to get some authorized flight time in and captured some haunting footage
SF News Fight Against Deadly NorCal Fires 'Turning A Corner' #TubbsFire [update] Calistoga & Santa Rosa (Napa/Sonoma Co) is at 36,390 acres and 70% contained. #CentralLNUComplex https://t.co/5OVEfaseWy pic.twitter.com/YlYfNxHGyD— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) October 16, 2017
SF News Firefighter Dies Helping To Keep Fire Away From Famed Mondavi Winery As the Nuns Fire edges closer to one of Napa's most iconic wineries, a firefighter has lost his life in the process of trying to keep the fire at bay. The fireman's vehicle,
SF News Fire Death Toll Hits 40 As Containment Levels Rise There are still 17 fires burning across Northern California, but containment is now looking closer to becoming a reality for the largest of the fires in Napa and Sonoma County. Meanwhile the death
SF News New Evacuations Ordered In Santa Rosa And Sonoma As Senators Feinstein And Harris Arrive For Community Meeting The fires burn on to our north, and as of late Friday the death toll was revised up to 35 with the addition of two elderly men found in a home in Napa,