August 2011

Marin County fire officials suspect that fireworks may have been the cause of a fire that broke out in the hills of Fairfax on Saturday afternoon and burned three acres, requiring 81 firefighters and aircraft to extinguish it. “Expended fireworks were found near the point of origin,” said Marin County Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike [...]

A candle left on a table started a fire Saturday in a double-wide mobile home in the 100 block of Robin St. in north Napa, according to the Napa Fire Department. The call for help came at 3:10 p.m. The resident present when the fire broke out tried to put it out with a fire [...]

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Two residents were taken to a hospital and two dogs and a cat were rescued after a fire broke out inside a bedroom Friday morning, authorities said. Just before 9 a.m., Huntington Beach firefighters responded to reports of a fire at 6171 Medford Drive, said Jeff Lopez, deputy fire marshal for the [...]

Fresno Fire responded to multiple calls of a house on fire at 2417 E. El Paso Avenue around 11:30 a.m. Thursday morning. When fire crews arrived they discovered a fully involved, fast moving fire in a garage that was beginning to threaten the home and a neighboring home. Fire crews aggressively attacked the flames and [...]