Late on the night of Tuesday, 22 October 1991, long-time friend Greg called and said simply, "We lost the house." Greg and his father had built, largely by hand, a beautiful house with a 270-degree ...

“You can feel the wind right now,” Elizabeth Stage said from her deck overlooking Oakland’s Claremont Canyon on Monday. The ’91 firestorm, formally known as the Tunnel Fire, narrowly missed her home ...

One person died in an early morning warehouse fire in Oakland, the Oakland Fire Department said Monday. The fire broke out at ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland residents and fire officials watching the images of devastation in Los Angeles this past week say it is a reminder of the many changes they have implemented, and the ...

The budget cuts that temporarily closed two Oakland Fire Department stations until the ... staff members — are slated to be among 91 or so layoffs expected to soon be announced.

Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington announced the temporary ... which is expected to result next month in somewhere around 91 layoffs to the city’s workforce. Combined, the two brownouts will ...

Both are in more forested areas of Oakland that fetch fewer emergency calls outside the peak wildfire months, fire officials said ... month in somewhere around 91 layoffs to the city’s workforce.

Weeks before the devastating fires ravaging Los Angeles, the city’s fire chief warned that funding cuts would hurt the department’s wildfire response. It’s a message that echoes in Oakland, where the ...

"There are no fire houses that we can afford to close. We need every firehouse we have and then some," said Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington. Covington said data led them to these stations ...