OAKLAND, Calif. -- One person died in an early morning warehouse fire in Oakland, the Oakland Fire Department said Monday.

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 ...

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.

Similar concerns have been voiced in Oakland where the fire department is also facing cuts due to the city's budget troubles. On Monday, the day before the Palisades Fire broke out in Los Angeles ...

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 ...

He believes the city is doing also a lot, like the annual home inspection by the Oakland Fire Department. But other says much more needs to be done. "I think people who live in the Oakland Hills ...

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 ...