A five-alarm brush fire near Interstate 580 in the Oakland Hills burned multiple homes and sparked an evacuation order on ...

The Oakland City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to allow three temporarily closed fire stations to ...

The Oakland City Council on yesterday (Tuesday) unanimously passed a resolution to allow three temporarily closed fire ...

Oakland averted the closure of four fire stations due to budget measures but will keep three closed until July.

The City of Oakland says it will keep open four fire stations rather than temporarily close them in the face of a nearly $130 million budget shortfall.

Four Oakland fire stations at risk of temporarily closing will remain open this fiscal year amidst a budget deficit, the city administrator announced. The city council adopted a contingency budget ...

Boito started working for the Albany Fire Department in 1996, with the devastating 1991 Oakland Hills fire still fresh in the Bay Area’s memory. The coordinated response to that fire, the largest ...

One woman is dead after a fire broke out at a Marietta home early Friday morning. Five others, including two firefighters, ...

The original plan was to temporarily close seven fire stations. Three stations that are currently closed, which include two in the Oakland Hills, are expected to reopen by June 30.

The new maps include Oakland and Santa Rosa, scenes of deadly fires, along with Northern California’s wine country. New fire hazard maps for the entire state will be released by March 24 ...

John Ramos reports on Oakland officials struggling with the city's budget shortfall even after finding funds to reopen closed ...