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Apartment Fire leaves 25 people homeless

December 11, 2008

WATSONVILLE — More than two dozen people lost their home when a fire raged through a Union Street triplex early Tuesday morning.
Maria Mendoza, who lived in one of two apartments on the second floor, said she heard popping sounds outside a little before midnight Monday and looked out the window to find flames lapping at [...]

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Sacramento weighs letting Battalion Chiefs in Union

December 9, 2008

Already armed with increased political clout, the city’s firefighters union may be getting bigger.
The question to be decided is: How much will it cost the city?
In January, when the Sacramento City Council gets back from its month-long recess, it is scheduled to review a resolution allowing the Fire Department’s 15 battalion chiefs to join [...]

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‘Panic, terror’ in six alarm Corte Madera blaze

December 7, 2008

Richardson Vilefort, a 29-year-old carpenter, was half asleep in his Corte Madera apartment just after 1 a.m. on Saturday when, he says, he heard sounds of “terror and panic.”

“All of a sudden there was all this commotion in the hallway and when I went out to see what was going on, I saw flames and [...]

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Man found dead in San Rafael house after explosion, fire

December 2, 2008

A man was found dead inside a San Rafael residence Tuesday after the building was ravaged by an explosion and a two-alarm fire, authorities said.

The fire was reported shortly before 4 p.m. at 812 A St., a detached home between Second and Third streets. A passing police officer heard an explosion before looking back to [...]

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Two People Die in California House Fire

December 2, 2008

Two people died when a wood-frame house in an older Hanford neighborhood was gutted by fire Sunday morning.
The victims were not identified, and fire investigators were picking through the rubble in search of a cause Sunday afternoon.
Neighbors said one of the occupants had moved into the home at 117 West Cameron St. about a year [...]

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Early-morning fire destroys San Anselmo home

November 28, 2008

An early-morning blaze gutted a San Anselmo home Friday.Fire officials said a couple who were renting the single-story unit at 404 San Francisco Blvd. escaped without injury to report the fire at 3:41 a.m., but their dog died. Firefighters from Marin County Fire, Ross Valley and Kentfield fire departments had the blaze contained by 4:16 [...]

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Two Fires force 24 residents from homes

November 27, 2008

Two separate fires displaced 24 Ventura County residents the day before Thanksgiving, authorities said.
A garage fire in Oxnard displaced 20 people who lived in the attached home and sent eight of them to the hospital early Wednesday. An hour later, a fire in a Simi Valley home displaced a family of four, sent three of [...]

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San Jose Firefighters Responds to Garage Blaze

November 23, 2008

On Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 8:48 a.m. units of the San Jose Fire Department responded to multiple reports of a garage fire in a single family dwelling at 5309 Herbert Drive in the city’s Cambrian Park neighborhood.

Upon their arrival firefighters discovered a well involved garage with heavy smoke and flames showing from the single-story [...]

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Metrolink and freight train collide in Rialto

November 22, 2008

RIALTO – A Metrolink commuter train hit the tail end of a freight train Thursday, injuring four passengers and disrupting commuters as far as Rancho Cucamonga.
National Transportation Safety Board officials said they will spend the next three days investigating what led up to the 11:30 a.m. accident just west of Lilac Avenue.
The commuter train, which [...]

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Four-alarm blaze ignites buildings in Alhambra

November 19, 2008

A four-alarm fire torched several buildings near 3rd and Main Tuesday night.
The cause of the blaze was unknown. Several residences and business were without power when the fire broke out.

The blaze apparently started in a condo or apartment complex that is under construction at 101 North 3rd Street. Several other buildings appeared to catch fire [...]

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