SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Most of the Redwoods In Big Basin Survived the Fire Most of the trees in Big Basin Redwoods State Park appear to have survived the CZU fire complex, Alameda County is allowing hair salons to open outdoors, and former First Lady of SF Kimberly Guilfoyle gave a bizarre-ass speech at the RNC.
SF News The 10 Largest Wildfires In California History Were Neither the Deadliest Nor the Most Destructive The history of wildfires in both recent and less recent California memory is dotted with truly tragic events like the 2018 Camp Fire, as well as incomprehensibly large and destructive events that were not necessarily as tragic because few homes or people were lost to them.
SF News Newsom Enacts New Fire Shelter Strategies to Avoid COVID-19 Outbreaks We’re now feeling the full fury of coronavirus and wildfire crises happening at the same time, and the state is scrambling to make sure COVID outbreaks don’t hit thousands of shelter evacuees.
SF News Red Flag Warning Called Off and Firefighters Make Steady Progress Containing Three Major Wildfires Mother Nature has gone easy on us for once this month, and fears of overnight lightning storms failed to materialize, giving firefighters another night of calm, cool conditions to make progress on the three major fires burning in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Air Quality In the East Bay Has Been Really Bad Zoom users experienced a major outage today, air quality remains terrible around SF, and a Vacaville man claims to have saved his property by spraying flames with Bud Light.
SF News Walbridge Fire Held Outside Of Guerneville and Healdsburg As High Winds Arrive; SCU Complex Prompts New Evacuation We are heading into a scary 48-hour period for the three massive wildfire complexes around the Bay Area as unstable air and possible thunderstorms move north from the remnants of Hurricane Genevieve.
SF News As Bay Area Wildfires Continue Burning Amid COVID-19, Online Donations Prove Key To Helping Firefighters and Victims With evacuation orders heaping and refugees now hunkered down inside hotel rooms, the Bay Area's reeling from yet another devastating spell of forest fires. And unfortunately: helping the victims and firefighters amid the pandemic is a less clear-cut action than one might think.
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.
