SF News Santa Cruz Fire Destroys Big Basin Lodge; Arsonist Arrested In Big Sur Fire That Has Now Burned 7,000 Acres The CZU Lightning Complex fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties has forced the emergency evacuation of the UC Santa Cruz campus and displaced over 60,000 residents, and caused damage to the oldest state park in California.
SF News Forecast Suggests Small But Significant Chance Of More Thunderstorms Sunday Night Widespread lightning on Sunday and Monday from the remnants of a tropical storm in the Pacific has led to a nightmarish early fire season across NorCal. Now the remnants of yet another storm, formerly Hurricane Genevieve, pose another threat of lightning around the Bay Area.
SF News North Bay Fire Complex Grows to 344 Square Miles, Claims Five Lives Firefighters began reaching some level of containment in the LNU Lightning Complex fires in Sonoma, Napa, and Solano counties Thursday night, but the level of destruction and death stemming from the fires has climbed to at least 480 structures and five lives.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: A Third Day Of Smoky Skies Air quality in SF will be at "orange" levels today, fire evacuees are eschewing shelters because of COVID, and the Golden State Killer's wife of 46 years speaks out for the first time since his arrest.
SF News Mondavi Fire Contained Quickly After Threatening Multiple Wineries A new wildfire erupted for unknown reasons in a field in the Napa Valley Thursday afternoon, nowhere near the footprint of the LNU Lightning Complex fires burning to the north and west.
SF News Fire Updates: LNU Complex Grows To 205 Square Miles, Two People Have Died Firefighters are stretched thin across Northern California as crews continue battling wildfires large and small on over two dozen fronts, in the nine-county Bay Area and beyond. And the still uncontained fire burning into Solano County is now imminently threatening thousands of homes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfires + Heatwave + Pandemic... You've Got To Be Joking Struggling businesses now have to lure people outside in the smoke, winds may pick up and make fires worse this evening, and on the plus side Barack Obama is set to tear Donald a new one in his DNC speech this evening.
SF News Mapping All the Wildfires As They Stand In the Bay Area Right Now You've likely seen the news reports and heard all the alphanumeric names being thrown around (LNU, CZU, 15-10, Hennessey, Gamble), and yes, it feels like we're in yet another apocalypse. Here are some maps.
SF News August Lightning Fires: Napa Fires Grow to 31,500 Acres, Sonoma Fire Threatens Guerneville Fires that began Monday near Lake Berryessa in Napa have prompted evacuations in Vacaville and Winters, and a fire grew rapidly in Sonoma County overnight west of Healdsburg, creating a widespread evacuation order.
SF News Wildfire With Major Growth Potential Prompts Evacuation Warning In West Sonoma County A newly worsening wildfire in rugged terrain west of Healdsburg in Sonoma County prompted an evacuation warning Tuesday that was pushed out to cellphones to all Sonoma County residents, raising alarm bells for many nowhere near the blaze.
SF News Multiple Major Wildfires Rage Around the Bay, Including Three In Napa County Five wildfires, four sparked by lightning, are burning around the Bay, including three now raging in Napa County that have grown larger in size than the two East Bay fires that began on Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hennessey Fire Near St. Helena Grows to 750 Acres Five more CA counties got added to the watch list today, PG&E is warning of random rolling blackouts tonight and tomorrow, and the lightning-caused fire in St. Helena has been named the Hennessey Fire, and it is still growing.
SF News Lightning Strikes Spark Multiple Fires in Napa, Knock Out Power In Healdsburg Monday morning thunderstorms have sparked multiple vegetation fires in Napa County, including a significant-looking one in the woods near St. Helena, and a lightning strike took out power for 11,000 customers in Healdsburg.
Arts & Entertainment Ron Howard's New Documentary 'Rebuilding Paradise' Depicts a Town Starting From Scratch The Camp Fire burned through Paradise nearly two years ago, killing dozens and decimating thousands of homes. Now, lauded film director Ron Howard’s new documentary, "Rebuilding Paradise," showcases how the community persevered — and began rebuilding their lives from nothing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nine Wildfires Are Burning Around California A new CDC study suggests actual coronavirus cases are 10 to 20 times higher than reported, California cases are set to eclipse New York's within days, and the reopening of Souvla led to hours-long lines to pick up food.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Mineral Fire Smoke Continues Reaching Bay Area The Mineral Fire is now 49 percent contained after burning seven days, malls in San Francisco are all closed again today, and Sonoma County is considering new public health enforcement measures.
SF News Smoke Haze From Two Central Valley Wildfires Will Linger Over Bay Through Thursday Night Hazy skies over San Francisco and other Bay Area cities today are being caused by smoke drifting north and west from two wildfires in the Central Valley: the Mineral Fire in Fresno County, and the closer Coyote Fire in San Benito County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Three Wildfires Burn In East, North, South Bays Newsom is threatening sanctions for elected officials if public health guidance is ignored, a man was fatally shot in the Bayview Sunday night, and both the four-alarm Clock Tower Fire and a three-alarm grass fire began burning across the Bay Monday.
SF News PG&E Says Power Shutoffs Will Be Briefer, More Targeted This Year We all should know by now what PG&E's promises are worth. But the still-standing utility is making new pledges aimed at quelling the anger over public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) that seriously impacted many lives and businesses last fall.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Quail Fire Now 50-Percent Contained House and Senate Democrats kneel for George Floyd, two men were hospitalized after their boat capsized near Half Moon Bay, and a homicide investigation has prompted road closures in San Jose.
SF News PG&E Claims Wildfire Victims Have ‘Overwhelming’ Support for Half-Cash, Half-Stock Settlement Deal PG&E stock seems like pretty curious compensation for 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter, but victims do seem in favor of the deal so they can finally get some renumeration.
SF Politics Newsom Vows to Holds PG&E’s Feet to the Fire as Wildfires and COVID-19 Collide Gavin has strong words for PG&E (but evasive words for Elon Musk’s defiance) as wildfire season is underway in the age of coronavirus.
SF News Sonoma County and Others Begin Imagining Fire Season With Coronavirus Given that we do not know how long the coronavirus pandemic will remain a threat in the Bay Area — or if it may decelerate and resurge later in the year the way influenzas do — cities and counties have to begin planning for fire season in an entirely new way.
SF News Utilities Commissioner Suggests Revoking PG&E's License to Operate In a new 16-page proposal that's now under review by the powerful California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the commission president is suggesting several milestones for PG&E to reach as it emerges from bankruptcy.
SF News Mid-February Wildfire Spreads to 120 Acres In Tahoe National Forest, Concerning Fire Experts The Antelope Fire broke out Monday along Highway 49 in Sierra County, north of Sierraville in Tahoe National Forest, and it quickly spread to 120 acres before firefighters could contain it.
