Thursday, April 19, 2012
The people in the home were able to escape without any reported injuries
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Thursday, April 19
Firefighters extinguished a one-alarm house fire in San Ramon on Wednesday night and kept the blaze contained to the home's garage, a San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District official said today. The fire was reported around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at a single-family home on Avalon Court, acting Battalion Chief Sean Grayson said. With three fire engines and two trucks responding, firefighters were able to control the blaze in under an hour, Grayson said. The home's occupants were able to escape safely and no injuries were reported. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. -- Bay City News
Monday, April 9, 2012
The San Ramon Valley Fire District said the fire was under investigation and didn't release very much information about the incident.
The San Ramon Valley Fire District responded to a two-alarm fire at 256 Morris Ranch Court, in Danville, Easter Sunday at 3:40 a.m. A two alarm fire means that the first responders, including three engines, two trucks and a paramedic, had to call for backup of three more engines. Fire district spokesperson Kim French said she wasn't aware of any injuries in the incident. The fire is currently under investigation and the fire district had no additional information to report. At this point it is unknown how many, if any, residents were displaced, or how much damage was done. Trulia lists 256 Morris Ranch Court as a four bedroom, 2,600-square-foot single-family home. Sign up for the Danville Patch daily newsletter and get all your local …
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Liliya Georgiyeva broke the rules and allowed her two young daughters to sleep in her bed Thursday evening, which may have saved them from a Friday morning fire.
Nearly everything that Liliya Georgiyeva owns is covered in a layer of oily black soot. Her family photos, her daughters' stuffed animals, a bouquet of roses that were sitting on the dining room table were just some of the things affected by a Friday morning fire at her apartment in Alamo. But that's just stuff. Most importantly, her two daughters -- Karina, 6, and Victoria, 2 -- are safe. "It could have been worse," Georgiyeva said. The stuff is dirty, some of it destroyed, their unit in the three-unit building, located on Danville Boulevard, is inhabitable. The fire started around 12:45 a.m., Friday morning, in the kitchen. "The fire alarm went off and I was thinking, 'What the heck?'" Georgiyeva said. "But when I opened my (bedroom) …
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Friday, February 17, 2012
No one was injured in the structure fire in Alamo early this morning.
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Friday, February 17
Residents of a five-unit building in Alamo were displaced from their homes early this morning after a kitchen fire sparked in one unit and started to spread, according to the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District. Fire personnel received a report of the structure fire in the 1100 block of Danville Boulevard at 12:48 a.m., fire district spokeswoman Kimberly French said. Smoke alarms in the home where the kitchen fire started alerted residents to the blaze, which sent smoke billowing from the building, French said. Firefighters were able to knock down the fire in about 40 minutes, and no one was injured. Damage to the building and property was estimated at around $75,000, French said. Investigators believe the fire started in one unit's …
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
A Patch editor remembers covering the 1991 Oakland Hills fire.
The enormity of the Oakland Hills fire first overwhelmed me on a quiet Tuesday morning 20 years ago. I was standing on a street in the Hiller Highlands subdivision near the Oakland/Berkeley border. The ground where homes used to stand was completely covered in grayish ash. All that was left of hundreds of houses were a few chimneys and concrete foundations. Wisps of smoke still rose from the soot. Small flames still flickered in tiny pockets of the decimated neighborhood. Blackened hulks of automobiles with no tires or windows littered the roads, parked where their owners had left them when they decided to run from the flames. I did a "360 turn" to survey the damage. I couldn't see anything that wasn't burned. Nothing. I was there covering…
Monday, October 17, 2011
The blaze killed 25 people, scorched 1,520 acres and destroyed or damaged 3,469 homes and apartments
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Monday, October 17, 2011
Where were you 20 years ago? If you were in the Bay Area, you most certainly remember the 1991 Oakland Hills fire. The blaze, with its ominous black cloud blanketing the East Bay, officially lasted for four days, from Saturday, Oct. 19, when it first ignited as a seemingly routine grass fire, to Wednesday, Oct. 23, when it was officially declared extinguished. The most destructive day was Sunday, Oct. 20, when the fire reignited in a valley just north of Highway 24 and just west of the Caldecott Tunnel. In the first hour of its fury, the fire torched 790 homes, igniting a house every 11 seconds. The flames, reaching 100 feet in height, killed 25 people while scorching 1,520 acres in the hills of Oakland on both sides of Highway 24. It …
Friday, September 9, 2011
The Friday night house fire on El Pintado Road in Danville was contained in just about one hour, with no injuries reported.
During a night of lightning striking, fires on Mount Diablo and a red flag weather warning for the Bay Area, a two-alarm house fire in Danville caused more than $1 million in damage Friday. The fire was reported at a one-story house at 482 El Pintado Road at around 8:40 p.m. It was completely knocked down in under an hour, fire district information officer Kim French said. One person was in the house when the fire broke out. That person was safely evacuated and there were no injuries reported, according to French. The blaze caused about $1 million in damage to the house and another $400,000 in damage to its contents. The cause of the fire has not been determined, although dispatchers at the time of the fire said a lightning strike…
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Cal Fire reports blaze charred 200 acres off Patterson Pass Road at Cross Road.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Firefighters – including some from the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District – spent about seven hours battling a 200-acre grass fire east of Livermore today, according to Cal Fire officials. The fire started at 12:13 p.m. near the intersection of Patterson Pass Road and Cross Road and was under control by 7:30 p.m., according to Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jim Crawford. Twelve engines, two bulldozers, two helicopters and two inmate hand crews battled the blaze throughout the afternoon. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries and no structures were threatened, Crawford said. — Bay City News Service
Friday, July 22, 2011
Three-story building is a total loss; firefighters keep blaze from spreading to adjacent unit.
For the second evening in a row, the firefighters of county Fire Protection District Station 3 on Tice Valley Boulevard were the first responders to a scary fire. For the second evening in a row, people were rendered homeless in multiple living units but — remarkably and fortunately — no injuries were reported among residents or firefighters. Friday's fire was on Running Springs Road overlooking the golf course that the Rossmoor retirement community is built around. Thirteen people from eight units were left homeless and being helped by the American Red Cross. Watch Patch for updates.
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Friday, July 1, 2011
Even those sparklers aren't allowed.
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Friday, July 1, 2011
The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District is reminding residents that the sale, possession and use of all fireworks is illegal in the county. The law even prohibits the use of sparklers and other so-called "safe and sane" fireworks, Fire Marshal Lewis Broschard said. People who have illegal fireworks for disposal can call their local police departments or the fire district's main office at 925-941-3300. People should not take fireworks to fire stations for disposal, Broschard said. This Fourth of July is expected to be hot, windy and dry, which means high fire danger in the county. Broschard said fireworks cause injuries and fires each year. Last year, more than 40 fires caused by fireworks were reported in the fire district's …
David Lehman
2:55 pm on Thursday, February 23, 2012
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