June 2011

U.S. Forest Service and Los Angeles County firefighters used teamwork on Sunday to quickly extinguish a small wildfire that broke out in the Angeles National Forest near the Horse Flats Campground, about 28 miles above La Cañada Flintridge. A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter spotted the blaze at 2:51 p.m. while responding to that [...]

The Alameda City Council approved a new contract with its beleaguered Fire Department Tuesday night over irate protests from the public demanding the firefighters take pay cuts. The 4-1 vote locks in a three-year contract a week before Alameda is set to adopt a municipal budget with steep cuts, including the closure of its animal [...]

A home fire and a grass fire that were reported within 12 minutes of each other this evening on separate sides of the city caused a shuffling of San Jose’s firefighting resources, a fire captain said. At 6:43 p.m., the fire department received a report of smoke coming from the eaves of a home near [...]

It may not have been love at first ride-along but for Vacaville Firefighter Drew Kostal, once his passion for firefighting was lit, nothing could quench the flame. Kostal, who has spent the last 11 years with the Vacaville Fire Department, went on a ride-along with a Bay Area fire department as a freshman in high [...]