SF News Toll Fire In Napa Burns 50 Acres, Prompts Evacuations We now have a wildfire near Calistoga that broke out Tuesday morning, and it has grown to 50 acres and counting in the area of Old Lawley Toll Road.
SF News Day Around the Bay: McLaren Park Grass Fire Sparked By Illegal Firework An illegal firework sparked a grass fire Sunday night in McLaren Park; Amici's East Coast Pizzeria is closing its last SF location; and President Biden condemned the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity.
SF News Apache Fire Near Chico Destroys Two Buildings, Triggers Evacuations A fire broke out in Butte County Monday evening and according to Cal Fire it was spreading at a dangerous pace before coming under more control Tuesday morning.
SF News Three More Wildfires Broke Out Monday In Northern California; Sonoma's Point Fire Now 40% Contained It's been a wild few days for firefighters across California and in southern New Mexico, where at least a dozen wildfires have broken out, some of them fast-growing, fueled by dry conditions and high winds.
SF News Point Fire In Sonoma County Grows to 1,100 Acres as Seven Major Wildfires Burn Across the State Cal Fire firefighters are contending with multiple large wildfires across the state that all broke out over the weekend, and it seems like fire season is already in full swing, though it's still mid-June.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfire Threatens Structures In St. Helena A wildfire broke out in St. Helena that is threatening structures; racist and sexist slurs were spray-painted on the front of SF City Hall; and protesters showed up at a Democratic fundraiser in Oakland where Kamala Harris was appearing.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Below Average Wildfire Risk Predicted For at Least a Couple Months Forecasters say June and July should see below average wildfire risk, but then things could change; a man was fatally shot in West Oakland Tuesday morning; and Elon Musk is getting sued by Tesla shareholders over a 2022 stock dump.
SF News Corral Fire In Far East Bay Reaches 75% Containment After Burning 22 Square Miles A fast-moving weekend wildfire scorched miles of vegetation east of Livermore and was threatening a residential area of Tracy before being significantly contained on Sunday.
SF News Sunday Links: Corral Fire Grows East of Livermore The Corral Fire, which began Saturday east of Livermore, had grown to 12,500 acres as of Sunday morning; the Fred Again/Skrillex show in Civic Center went off without a hitch; and 1,400 high schoolers had their SAT exam canceled in Oakland due to a wi-fi problem.
SF News Five Years Ago Today, the NorCal Town of Paradise Exploded In Flames, Killing 85 Today, November 8, marks the five-year anniversary of the devastating Camp Fire, which claimed 85 lives, destroyed some 11,000 homes, and nearly wiped an entire community off the map.
SF News Red-Flag Warning Weekend Included Brush Fire In Benecia, Several Barns Destroyed In Petaluma Blaze It was not a completely quiet weekend for the North Bay during this past weekend's Red Flag Warning, but the reported fires were fairly quickly contained.
SF News Broadest Red Flag Warning In Two Years Issued For Bay Area Ahead of Diablo Wind Forecast It's been an extremely — thankfully! — quiet fire season for our local area, but some serious fire danger is headed our way this weekend with a weather system that promises dry, offshore winds that often present wildfire hazards.
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.
