January 2011

A pilot of a single-engine plane suffered moderate to serious injuries Sunday morning when the plane crashed in between two homes in Big Bear, authorities said. The crash occured shortly after 7 a.m., but no one in the either home was injured, according Deanne Johanson, a spokeswoman for the Big Bear City Fire Department.

Sacramento firefighters said a family of five was able to escape safely from a townhouse fire Saturday morning due to a smoke detector alert. Sacramento firefighters, together with crews from the Consumnes Fire District and Metro Fire Department, said they responded to a second alarm fire at a townhome located at the 7600 block of [...]

Two Evans firefighters rescued two young children who had fallen through the ice on a lake at Riverside Park. The firefighters, in ice rescue gear went into the water, broke ice to get tot he children and pulled them to the shore, according to Evans Fire Department Captain Brian Eckstine Evans police officer Joe Eckstine [...]

A luxury home in west Visalia being rebuilt after a June fire was gutted by a second fire early Friday. The house in the 1400 block of North Noyes Court was empty and surrounded by a locked, chain-link fence when a neighbor -†a teacher who was awake grading papers — heard a crackling sound and [...]