SF News Humpday Headlines: Dutch Fire Breaks Out In Placer County Near Mosquito Fire The Mosquito Fire entered the community of Foresthill on Tuesday and threatened many structures, a second smaller fire broke out nearby in Placer County, and four people were shot in a chaotic scene in East Oakland.
SF News Mosquito Fire Nears 50,000 Acres, Now 18% Contained The Mosquito Fire, now burning for a week in Placer and El Dorado counties, quickly overtook the SoCal Fairview Fire as the largest fire currently burning in the state, and as of this morning reached 49,761 acres.
SF News Mosquito Fire Grows to Over 33,000 Acres, Becomes Largest Currently Burning CA Wildfire As of Saturday afternoon, the Mosquito Fire has burned 33,754 acres — with still 0% of the blaze contained and now threatens 3,666 structures — which makes it the largest fire currently burning in the state.
SF News Mosquito Fire Grows to 14,000 Acres, Jumps Into El Dorado County, Begins Impacting Tahoe Air Quality A wildfire that broke out Tuesday in Placer County, west of Lake Tahoe, grew significantly on Thursday and overnight, aided by ongoing hot and dry conditions. And it has begun ruining the air quality for late-summer pleasure-seekers around the Lake Tahoe basin.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Brush Fire Near Martinez Prompts Brief Evacuation Scare A Monday evening brush fire in the hills near Martinez prompted an evacuation warning but was quickly contained, it hit 97 degrees in SF on Monday breaking an earlier record, and 18 people died in vehicle crashes statewide over the holiday weekend.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Hot Weather Fuels Wildfires Around the Bay This week's heatwave is expected to test California's power grid once again, a 50-acre wildfire was threatening a subdivision in Dublin on Monday, and Apple is now saying employees need to be back in the office three days per week after Labor Day.
SF News McKinney Fire Death Toll Rises to Four, Containment Lines Strengthen Outside Yreka The McKinney Fire, burning in a remote part of northernmost Northern California, has claimed at least four lives, after two more sets of human remains were found in residences along Highway 96.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Bodies Found In Car In Wake of McKinney Fire The monkeypox vaccine clinic at SF General is back open, two bodies were found in a car in a driveway in the McKinney Fire zone, and one person was shot and wounded near Civic Center on Sunday afternoon.
SF News Oak Fire Smoke Floats to Tahoe, Not Bay Area, So Far An air quality advisory issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has been extended to Thursday, and we may still see some haze from the drifting smoke of the Oak Fire here around the Bay. But so far, it hasn't happened as predicted.
SF News Truck Fire In Sonoma County Sparks One-Acre Wildfire; Firefighters Quickly Contain It Due to Favorable Conditions A vehicle fire in Cloverdale caused a bit of panic Wednesday afternoon as Sonoma County braces for another dramatic fire season still ahead.
SF News Growing Washburn Fire More Than Doubles in Size, Threat to Nearby Giant Sequoias Increases The Washburn Fire in Yosemite National Park measures over 1,800 acres as of Sunday afternoon — more than doubling in size from the day prior — and remains completely uncontained, extending ever so slightly now closer to Mariposa Grove... where some 500 mature giant sequoias are rooted.
SF News Amador County Wildfire Raging at Nearly 3,500 Acres, About 15,000 People Are Without Power A sudden wildfire in Amador County forced nearly 100 July 4th beachgoers to coop up inside a PG&E power plant for safety on Monday afternoon and evening, and the fire has since grown exponentially in size.
SF News Bay Area Fire Departments Kept Very Busy By July 4 Fireworks, Which Caused Hundreds of Fires Hundreds of fires caused by illegal fireworks (and illegal bonfires in the middle of streets) peppered the entire Bay Area Monday night, leading to some very busy firefighters across the region.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland School District Moves Ahead With Closures The Rices Fire in Nevada County is being held at 900 acres, the body of a missing Oakland teenager has been found in waters of Alameda, and the Oakland school board voted for a third time to move ahead with closing or consolidating around 10 schools.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wildfire Near Nevada City Grows to 769 Acres The Rices Fire has been burning since Tuesday in Nevada County and is now threatening over 500 buildings, SF street vendors of often stolen goods remain defiant in the face of a new crackdown, and Nancy Pelosi just received Holy Communion in Rome.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 100-Acre Fire Burning In Winters Near Solano County A 100-acre wildfire is burning near the edge of Solano County in Winters, the Edgewood Fire in San Mateo County has reached 42% containment, and one person was critically injured in a house fire in SF's Mission District today.
SF News Congress Steps In to Save Sequoia Trees, As Nearly 20% Have Been Killed By Wildfires California’s giant sequoia trees were once considered practically immune to wildfires. But after several thousand were killed by wildfires in recent years, a new bill in Washington hopes to protect and preserve the mighty sequoias.
SF News PG&E Not Only Caused the Massive Dixie Fire, a New Report Says It Also Was 'Excessively Delayed' In Responding to It PG&E is once again on the defensive following the release of a state report on the 2021 Dixie Fire that not only suggests the utility was negligent in its tree-removal program, which helped spark the fire, but also that their response the day of the fire was "excessively delayed."
SF News In Ominous Sign for This Fire Season, Two Brush Fires Break Out Next to Homes In East Bay Subdivisions In One Day Firefighters in Contra Costa County were battling two vegetation fires Wednesday that broke out dangerously close to densely populated subdivisions, in Antioch and in Bay Point. And a third fire also broke out today in Livermore.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Napa Wildfire Reaches 570 Acres, Evacuation Order Lifted The Old Fire in Napa is now 15% contained and Tuesday's evacuation orders have been lifted, Oakland is limiting rent-controlled rent increases to 3%, and the Marin sheriff has agreed to stop sharing license plate data from highway cameras with federal agencies.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Three Wildfires Break Out Around State Three fires are burning around the state after Wednesday's winds including one that's destroyed 20 homes in Laguna Beach, Catherine Stefani likely tops London Breed's shortlist for Boudin replacements, and a retail theft ring was busted in Pittsburg.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Vegetation Fire Contained Near Altamont Pass A wind-whipped vegetation fire grew to 50 acres last night in eastern Alameda County, Twitter released decent earnings for the first quarter of 2022, and Alice Waters' new LA cafe has opened and isn't that exciting according to one Berkeley resident.
SF News PG&E Agrees to $55 Million Settlement to Make Criminal Charges Disappear in Dixie Fire and Kincade Fire Two settlements for two different wildfires that impacted six different counties will halt several separate criminal investigations, as PG&E will pay $55 million to settle criminal allegations in the Dixie and Kincade fires.
SF News Illegal Marijuana Farmer Found Guilty for Starting the 2020 Dolan Fire The Dolan Fire that killed a firefighter and 12 California condors was started intentionally, and the 31-year-old illegal marijuana grower who started it was found guilty of arson on Thursday.
SF News Report: Wildfire Smoke Could Double or Triple in Coming Decades, Causing More Wildfires The dirty air from wildfire smoke could occur two to three times more frequently a generation or two down the line, thanks to a vicious cycle that makes the smoky air itself cause more wildfires.
