SF Politics Trump Lands In Sacramento For Wildfire Briefing, Gets Greeted By Protesters Trump was doing his best to seem presidential and look like he cared as he met with state leaders in Sacramento about the wildfire response, and Governor Gavin Newsom did his best not to spit in his face.
SF News Massive Evacuation Orders Come As Oregon Wildfire Nears Portland Suburb Approximately half the residents of Oregon's Clackamas County — the edge of which abuts the southern city limits of Portland — have been ordered to evacuate their homes as one of five wildfires currently burning in the state is threatening several towns and suburbs.
SF News Smoke To Sit Over Entire Bay Area All Day Friday As Air Quality Readings Hit 300+ As forecast yesterday by those in the know, the smoke situation that has dimmed and discolored the sky over the Bay Area isn't going to magically clear on Friday. There isn't enough wind to push the smoke in any direction except swirling over us, according to the latest model.
SF News 'Records Will Continue To Be Broken': Mendocino Fire Has Now Leaped Ahead of Bay Area Complexes In Size 2020 is set to add more record-huge blazes to that list before the year is out, and the August Complex fires burning in Mendocino National Forest have now surpassed both the LNU and SCU complexes in size to become the second-largest wildfire in state history.
Arts & Entertainment Here's a Video Of What It Looked Like Taking Off From SFO Into the Orange Smoke On Wednesday We know what being on the ground looked like. But what did it actually look like as you flew up above the clouds and the smoke?
SF News Three People Are Dead and At Least A Dozen Are Missing As Bear Fire Rages In Butte County The fire that's been being referred to as the Bear Fire received a new official name from Cal Fire Thursday morning: North Complex West Zone.
SF News Smoky Skies To Last At Least Through Friday As Air Quality Worsens In Bay Area Things weren't quite as orange on Thursday morning as they were a day earlier, though the sky may look like that again before all this is through. And unlike yesterday when ground-level air quality was fairly okay, today's not a day to be walking outside or exercising.
SF News PG&E Issues 'All Clear': When Is Power Coming Back On In Napa and Sonoma? On Wednesday morning, PG&E issued an "all clear" for the most recent wind event in the North Bay and the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) that impacted a broad swath of Northern California.
SF News Sky In SF Turns Apocalypse Orange As Smoke From Oregon, Mendocino Fires Fills Atmosphere It doesn't smell smoky in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, just as it didn't for most of Tuesday. Yet the color of the sky turned an even more disturbing, Hades-like orange as everyone woke from their slumbers today, and it's thanks to fires that are burning very far away.
SF News Fire Flare-Ups and High Winds Prompt New Evacuations In Sonoma County, Widespread Power Shutoff Warnings Even before a Red Flag Warning had fully taken effect in Sonoma County, wind-blown flare-ups in the area of the Walbridge Fire — which was 95-percent contained as of Monday morning — prompted new evacuation orders Monday night for fire-weary residents.
SF News Smoke From Mendocino, Other Fires Chokes the Bay Area As Closer Fires Near Full Containment This Labor Day is less than a pleasant one for barbecues or anything outdoors, really, with the air heating up and more wildfire smoke descending on San Francisco and much of the Bay Area.
SF News Cal Fire Races to Contain Remaining Fires Ahead of Weekend Dry Spell A weekend heatwave with a drop in humidity could create hazards as firefighters work to contain what remains of the three major wildfire complexes in the Bay Area.
SF News LNU and SCU Fire Complexes Top 70-Percent Containment The LNU Lightning Complex fires in Sonoma, Napa and several other counties has reached 76-percent containment as Wednesday, with full containment estimated by early next week. The slightly larger SCU Lightning Complex stood at 72-percent contained as of midday.
SF News PG&E to Spend the Fall Doing 'Accelerated' Inspections of Transmission Lines by Drone and Helicopter As the traditional height of fire season approaches — these lightning fires we saw in August were an early-season surprise — PG&E says it will be conducting "accelerated" inspections of transmission lines starting in areas of Marin and Sonoma counties by drone and helicopter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Major Fires Around Bay Area to Be Contained By Sept. 8 The SFPD has arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with a burglary and attempted sexual assault of a juvenile, Sonoma County is reopening hair salons, and Cal Fire says the LNU and CZU fire complexes may be contained by early next week.
SF News Fire Updates: Full Containment On SCU Complex Expected Thursday; Smoke to Linger Over Bay Until Wednesday Containment lines improved on all the Bay Area wildfires between Sunday and Monday, but the Woodward Fire in rugged parts of western Marin County remains the most difficult to manage.
SF News Largest Bay Area Wildfire Complexes More Than 50-Percent Contained The biggest two wildfire complexes, the LNU Lightning Complex and the SCU Lightning Complex are now at least half contained after firefighters made headway on containment lines Saturday.
SF News Fire Updates: LNU Damage Map Released, SCU Complex Grows Overnight The SCU and LNU Lightning Complex fires have traded off the number-two and number-three spots a couple of times this week on the list of the biggest wildfires in California history. And once again the SCU Complex in the East/South Bays and the Central Valley has moved to the top.
SF News Fire Updates: Gusty West Winds Approach As Containment Levels Rise On Bay Area Fire Complexes The largest of the lightning-sparked conflagrations in the Bay Area, which is once again the LNU Lightning Complex fires by about 200 acres, saw containment rise to 33 percent overnight, and one entire zone of the SCU Lightning Complex has been declared fully contained.
Business & Tech Some SF Hotels Reopen to Accommodate Wildfire Evacuees at a Discount San Francisco's largely vacant hotels have an opportunity both to provide shelter to Bay Area residents displaced from their homes due to wildfire evacuation orders, and to make some revenue after months of nearly zero in the process.
SF Politics Sonoma County Rescue Copter Could Be Victim of Budget Cuts, Claims Controversial Sheriff The Bay Area sheriff who gained notoriety in May for refusing to enforce his county's public health orders says that budget cuts would mean no more rescue copter for the cash-strapped and currently burning Sonoma County.
SF News Fire Updates: Some Evacuees Return Home In Napa and Sonoma; Armstrong Redwoods Largely OK Containment on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay grew overnight on Tuesday, and evacuation orders began to be lifted in parts of the North Bay that either burned last week or were largely spared.
SF News Gang of Santa Cruz Natives Forms Amateur Fire Brigade, Claiming Cal Fire Isn't Doing Enough A volunteer group of amateur firefighters is taking it upon themselves to try to save homes in and around Bonny Doon in Santa Cruz County, as the state's firefighting resources are stretched thin with too many fires to battle.
SF News New York Times SF Bureau Chief Is Already Very Tired Of Covering Fires Thomas Fuller, the San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times for the last four years, has been stuck covering wildfires for the last three very active fire seasons — and then came this one, starting off good and early. He is sounding really quite exhausted with it all.
SF News Firefighters Slowly Increase Containment On Bay Area Fires Amid Favorable Weather Lower temperatures, higher humidity, and relatively calm winds have allowed firefighters to begin to get the upper hand on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay. But the smaller Woodward Fire in Marin County continues burning and threatening homes.
