October 2009

Three fires erupting within an hour stretched Manteca’s fire equipment to a breaking point prompting firefighters to look to Lathrop and Ripon departments for mutual aid as they called in off-duty fire fighters and reserve personnel. The first alarm came in a driving rain at 4:47 p.m. with a report of smoke coming from the [...]

A two-alarm residential fire in San Mateo that caused an estimated $200,000 worth of damage and displaced four people early this morning has been extinguished, according to fire officials. The fire was reported at about 2:40 a.m. at a building in the Scotchollow Apartments complex at 113 Laurie Meadows Drive, a San Mateo County fire [...]

FONTANA – Southern California firefighters have been busy lately. There was the Cottonwood Fire, the Sheep Fire and the Station Fire, which ended up being the largest blaze in Los Angeles County history. This weekend, they were busy with something different – NASCAR. Every year, race cars whiz into Auto Club Speedway bringing with them [...]

A wildfire that forced the evacuation of Wrightwood, destroyed five structures and blackened more than 7,100 acres of brush and timber was fully contained Saturday. Firefighters contained the Sheep fire a week after it broke out on Oct. 3 and continued to mop up and patrol containment lines, according to the U.S. Forest Service. All [...]