SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Smoke Plume Arrives Over Bay Area Wildfire smoke is making for hazy skies in the Bay Area, Scott Wiener has pulled his decriminalize-psychedelics bill, and President Biden is vowing retribution for the ISIS attack on Kabul's airport that now has a death toll of over 180.
SF News Fire Evacuation Warning Hits Tahoe Basin For First Time in 14 Years An evacuation warning has come to part of the Tahoe Basin, in the first time since 2007 that a wildfire has threatened the area — though firefighters continue to say that they will try to prevent any flames from entering the basin.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Caldor Fire Grows to 104,000 Acres An air quality advisory has been issued for the Bay Area Monday though smoke may stay aloft, the Caldor Fire continues growing near South Lake Tahoe, and the FDA has given full approval to the Pfizer vaccine.
SF News Orange, Hazy Skies Return, and It’s a Spare the Air Alert for the Rest of the Week The unholy trinity of the Dixie, Caldor, and Cash fires are smoking up Bay Area skies, and a Spare the Air alert is in effect for Thursday and Friday.
SF News Cache Fire Destroys 60 Homes in Clearlake; Firefighters Say They've Stopped the Fire's Progress The Cache Fire that began on Wednesday in Lake County very quickly spread to 60 and then 80 acres, and destroyed at least 60 homes in the town of Clearlake.
SF News Caldor Fire Tops 53,000 Acres; Firefighters Call Fire Behavior 'Unprecedented' The Caldor Fire burning in El Dorado County, which was at 6,500 acres as of yesterday morning and 30,000 acres by evening, continued tearing through the El Dorado National Forest overnight, and as of Wednesday morning it had hit 53,000 acres.
SF News Cal Fire Investigation Comes Up Short on Evidence, Can't Pinpoint Cause of Last Year's Glass Fire The official cause of the Glass Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties last fall will remain undetermined pending the revelation of more conclusive evidence, and Cal Fire investigators say they have not found enough to make a determination.
SF News Images From Greenville, the Latest California Town Decimated By Wildfire New satellite images and on-the-ground photos from Greenville, the Northern California town of about 1,000 people that was leveled by the flames of the Dixie Fire last week, paint a sad but increasingly familiar picture of a wildfire's wrath.
SF News Onshore Wind Pattern to Improve Bay Area Air Quality Conditions Sunday A strong wind pattern is expected to roll into the Bay Area later this evening from the Pacific, pushing away wildfire smoke pollutants and enhancing air quality throughout the region.
SF News Orange Skies Return To Parts of Northern California From Dixie, River Fires The Dixie Fire exploded Thursday night on two fronts, and it's created eerie, orange-sky scenes all over as the smoke from it spreads.
SF News Day Around the Bay: River Fire In Placer County Grows Quickly, Threatens Colfax A new wildfire on the border between Placer and Nevada counties has quickly grown amid high winds, an air quality advisory has been issued for the Bay Area for Thurs/Fri, and runner Philip Kreycik's presumed remains included his smartwatch.
SF News Berkeley Hills Residents Being Told to Evacuate Whenever Fire Danger Rises The city of Berkeley and the Berkeley Fire Department are taking a new and aggressive step in addressing fire season, and residents of the Berkeley hills — and by extension, the Oakland hills — are being told they should preemptively evacuate under certain circumstances.
SF News PG&E Equipment Possibly to Blame for Second Wildfire That Merged With Dixie Fire Not only could PG&E's equipment be responsible for the Dixie Fire, but the company has just submitted a report pointing to a tree being in contact with its power lines near the town of Quincy, in the area where the smaller Fly Fire began before it merged with the Dixie Fire.
SF News Whipped Up By Winds, Dixie Fire Continues Destroying Buildings In Indian Falls The Dixie Fire, which despite its massive burn scar has so far been mostly burning through uninhabited forest in Butte and Plumas counties, continues raging in the area of Indian Falls, and the full extent of the damage won't be clear for a day or two.
SF News Dixie Fire Explodes to 181,289 Acres; Increased Smoke Causes Problems for Air Tankers Since starting July 14, the Dixie Fire has grown to over 181,289 acres in size — or roughly an area six times the acreage of San Francisco. And it's still only 19% contained.
SF News PG&E Finally Has Plans to Put Electrical Lines Underground In Fire-Prone Areas A week after a new wildfire appears to have been potentially sparked by a tree hitting PG&E transmission lines in Butte County, the company gave a press conference to announce a ten-year plan to bury 10,000 miles of power lines.
SF News PG&E Equipment May Be to Blame For Sparking Dixie Fire Near Where Camp Fire Began The Dixie Fire now burning in Butte and Plumas counties has grown to over 30,000 acres since starting last week, and PG&E is now admitting that its equipment may once again be to blame for the initial sparks.
SF News Now There's a Red Flag Warning for Parts of the Bay Area The potential for dry thunderstorms striking parts of the Bay Area has now led the National Weather Service to elevate areas that were previously under a Fire Weather Watch now to a Red Flag Warning.
SF News Dixie Fire Scorches Over 2,200 Acres Near Paradise In Under Two Days A wildfire that expanded rapidly on Wednesday is burning very near the burn scar of the 2018 Camp Fire, just east of the origin point of that fire, but so far is not threatening any homes.
SF News Cannabis Company Caused Mendocino Wildfire That Burned 80 Acres Well-funded legal marijuana darling Flow Kana admits one of their lawnmowers sparked last week’s Broiler Fire, which forced 250 evacuations while burning 80 acres and three homes.
SF News Biden Sends $37M In Wildfire Mitigation Funds to Sonoma, Promises Raises For Firefighters Sonoma County was one of the first in the country to apply for a grant under a new FEMA program dedicated to pre-disaster mitigation, and President Joe Biden announced today that they would be getting the aid immediately.
SF News Will This Be the First Wildfire Smoke to Blanket SF? Lava Fire Grows to 20 Square Miles The Lava Fire currently burning east of I-5 in Siskiyou County tripled in size overnight and has now scorched 13,000 acres, or about 20 square miles. The blaze is hundreds of miles from San Francisco, but it's taking shape to being the first truly major fire of the season in our half of the state.
SF News Willow Fire In Monterey County Reaches 26% Containment, Evacuations Lifted Some mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted in the remote mountains of the Ventana Wilderness east of Big Sur as firefighting crews have gained the upper hand on the week-old Willow Fire.
Business & Tech Due to Those Batteries, Tesla Car Fires Require Outlandish Volumes of Water to Extinguish All types of electric vehicles pose problems for firefighters when they crash and their lithium ion batteries go ablaze, but Teslas have routinely required more than 20,000 gallons of water. That does not bode well for wildfire season!\
SF News Willow Fire In Monterey County Grows to 2,900 Acres, 0% Containment The Willow Fire, which was sparked five nights ago in a remote area of Monterey County east of Big Sur, between the burn scars of two recent large wildfires, continues to grow, but weather conditions slowed its growth on Monday.
