8+ hour, 1+ min ago   (140+ words) A vegetation fire destroyed two barns and damaged a home Saturday afternoon, according to authorities. The Schell-Vista Fire District said the vegetation fire was spreading to buildings at 1365 Napa Road. Authorities said the fire left a home badly damaged and…...

9+ hour, 48+ min ago   (215+ words) A wildfire burning in Northern California has prompted evacuation orders for areas of Lake and Mendocino counties, authorities said. More than a dozen San Francisco firefighters were deployed to help battle the Lucas Fire Saturday, according to the fire department....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (393+ words) According to CBS San Francisco, the fire had grown to 3,476 acres by about 2 p.m. Friday after reaching 400 acres by 4 p.m. Thursday. Evacuation orders now cover eight zones, including MNF-E016, MNF-E018, MNF-E019, and five zones around Upper Lake, while additional evacuation warnings stretch…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (245+ words) Available reports do not establish that a house fire was reported on Grant Road in Montara or when it was reported. They also do not provide occupant casualty or treatment details, or establish whether a fire spread to neighboring homes…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (106+ words) A brush fire has burned at least 70 acres in Napa County, Cal Fire said Wednesday afternoon. Cal Fire battles Napa County ‘Steele Fire' with ground and air crews The blaze is burning in steep terrain near the 9400 block of Steele…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (222+ words) Crews set fire to roughly 260 acres of grassland, coastal scrub and oak woodland on Angel Island Tuesday, and wind shifts pushed the smoke inland toward Richmond and West Contra Costa County. Officials warned the smoke could linger, and city officials…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (339+ words) A new wildfire dubbed the Ranch Fire was first discovered burning on private land in Santa Cruz County at 2:14 p.m. Monday, with no containment status or determined cause reported as of Monday evening. The blaze adds one more ignition to a…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (170+ words) Heartleaf milkweed carries history beyond its ecological role. Indigenous Miwok communities historically made deer nets, including nets up to about 40 feet long. The land trust also conducts monarch and milkweed monitoring at Sutro. Beyond its own crews, the organization asks…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (99+ words) By around 3 p.m., PG&E's own outage alerts showed several separate Sonoma County outages affecting thousands of customers, a sign that the temporary rerouting was already rippling through the system. The Chronicle's report noted that moving customers onto a substitute circuit…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (506+ words) The Plaskett Fire burning south of Big Sur continued to spread aggressively on Monday, exploding to thousands of acres since the weekend. In a Monday news release from the U.S. Army Fort Hunter Liggett Public Affairs Office, officials said there is…...