April 2009

SAN MATEO, Calif. — A woman was hospitalized with severe burns and a firefighter escaped serious injury after he fell through a floor early Thursday after a two-alarm fire raced through a San Mateo apartment complex, authorities said. San Mateo City Fire Chief Joe Novelli said a 911 call reported the blaze at 2:29 a.m. [...]

The Brooktrails Fire Department presented its annual fire report to the Brooktrails Township Board of Directors Tuesday and announced the promotion of three department members. Fire Capt.Jon Noyer was promoted to battalion chief and firefighters Tyler Porritt and Andy Whitlock were both promoted to engineer. Family members of the three firemen changed the insignia on [...]

BARSTOW • Fire gutted an apartment on the 600 block of East Virginia Way Wednesday afternoon. A woman and two teenaged sons were home in the two-story apartment when the fire started escaped unharmed, but the apartment sustained about $60,000 in damages, Barstow Fire Protection District Division Chief Sal Corrao said. Fire district officials listed [...]

OROVILLE — Oroville firefighters responded to two house fires in just over one hour Tuesday afternoon, though neither did serious damage. The first fire was reported at 2:49 p.m. at 2133 Fort Wayne St. El Medio Fire Chief Rusty Olhausen said the resident of the home was cooking potatoes and onions on her stove, which [...]