OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) - The summer of 1923 was hot and rainless, leaving the hills explosively dry. On Sept. 17 high winds out of the north blew smoke across a small grass fire in Wildcat Canyon and ...

ONE hundred years ago, in April 1905, the large house-furnishing store of Thomas Burberry was burned down in Winchester Street, with several other shops. For many years afterwards, the blaze was ...

Four attack lines were staffed as crews from six departments responded to this Oct. 31, 2016 house fire in Newark. The mission of Firehouse is to educate and inspire firefighters so that they can ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In this 1953 Press Herald news photograph, firefighters pose with Engine 8 ...