Fires

Property owners subject to an annual state fire protection fee may be billed later in the year than expected.

A fire on Saturday evening destroyed a motor home and damaged an adjacent house belonging to a Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District employee, officials reported.

A blind 3-year-old pug gave its Citrus Heights family first warning of a fire Sunday night, officials said.

Gov. Jerry Brown wants to expand how the state can spend new fire fee proceeds, while Republican legislators want to kill the charge entirely.

Sacramento police said they are investigating the death of 32-year-old Patrick Kendrick as a homicide after his body was discovered Friday in an apartment fire on Norwood Avenue.

A fire that heavily damaged three vehicles at a car dealership in Arden Arcade was caused by someone stealing gasoline, according to fire officials.

A fire in Arden Arcade sheds light on the importance of smoke alarms mounted in hallways.

A Citrus Heights couple awoke early Saturday after an unattended fire in their fireplace caused a raging blaze in the home's attic.

An early Saturday fire at Mikuni Sushi in Fair Oaks activated the restaurant's sprinkler system, flooding the popular eatery.

A preliminary investigation failed to find anything criminal in the death of a woman whose body was found Thursday in a burned south Sacramento County duplex.

Two people were transported to an area hospital Thursday night with injuries suffered during a two-alarm fire that damaged eight apartment units in the Foothill Farms area.

The fire that gutted Jennifer Taylor's home last August destroyed nearly everything her family owned. And it got harder from there.

Sacramento Metropolitan firefighters fought an aggressive fire at a vacant store in Carmichael that left $300,000 in damage in its wake, according to authorities.

Oroville-area firefighters mopped up Friday after a daylong fire knocked an underground hydroelectric generating plant out of commission and caused an estimated several million dollars in damage.

It was a rough Thanksgiving day for a half-dozen families forced to flee their Citrus Heights apartment complex by a fire late Wednesday.

A massive fire burned Thursday in one of the hydroelectric generating units connected to Oroville Dam on the Feather River.

Two people died Sunday night in a fire that destroyed an old house in Pilot Hill.

The third fire traced to electrical problems in 30 days has prompted a suburban fire district to caution homeowners about doing electrical repairs themselves.

Twenty-five homes in the Somerset area of El Dorado County were threatened Tuesday afternoon by a fire that burned 15 acres of heavy brush.

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Department officials say that earlier fire damage to the Value Inn in Rancho Cordova was so extensive it was hard to tell whether Monday afternoon's fire actually resulted in any new damage to the troubled structure.

Sacramento Metro firefighters responded to a major blaze early Sunday morning at a two-story house in the 2700 block of Hyanis Way.

The 16 Complex fire, which began last Tuesday, has now burned a little less than 18,000 acres and is 90 percent contained as of 6:30 a.m.

The 16 Complex Fire in the remote Rumsey Canyon area of Colusa County burned almost 18,000 acres by Saturday evening and was reported 71 percent contained, officials said.

The 16 Complex fire, which started Tuesday in a remote area of Colusa County, has burned 16,719 acres and was reported 35 percent contained Friday evening.

A second fire in two weeks at a commercial building on Florin Road is being called suspicious.

The 16 Complex fire – two fires about four miles apart in Colusa County – was reported 10 percent contained with 3,500 acres burned as of Wednesday night.

Hundreds of firefighters converged Tuesday on a remote area of Colusa County where two wildfires combined.

Firefighters rescued a dog from an Arden Arcade home Sunday evening when a grease fire caused heavy damage to the two-story residence.

The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District responded to two fires in a little more than two hours at area preschools.

Fire crews on Wednesday night were close to corralling a wildland fire in the Pilot Hill area that prompted voluntary evacuations for some residents of the rural area.

Rolling rocks and flaming debris forced firefighters out of a canyon Tuesday night near Butt Valley Reservoir, where they were hoping to stop the Chips fire from its steady advance north toward Lake Almanor.

For residents of the Sacramento region, there was little escape from Tuesday's stifling blanket of smoke. With wildfires burning in most every direction, the air was about as bad as it gets: smoky and hot, with only the barest hint of breeze.

The heavy smoke that hung over Sacramento on Monday came from a fire burning on Grizzly Island in Solano County, according to Sacramento County's Regional Fire Dispatch Center.

A stubborn, 2-week-old wildfire continued to rage out of control Monday, forcing some residents in the Feather River Canyon to evacuate while others around the south end of Lake Almanor are under voluntary evacuation orders.

Starting today, rural homeowners will begin receiving bills of up to $150 to cover the wildlands fire prevention services offered by the state in their neighborhoods.

A house across from Winn Park in midtown Sacramento was heavily damaged in a fire late Friday.

Strong winds and remote, steep terrain are driving a series of wildland fires that have charred a total of more than 61,000 acres in California's northeastern corner.

An Oak Park fire spread to adjacent structures Wednesday in part because of scheduled fire station brownouts, said Niko King, Sacramento Fire Department assistant chief.

A fire in Tuolumne County was down to 30 acres and was 65 percent contained, with full containment expected Wednesday evening, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.

U.S. Forest Service and California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention crews on Monday successfully contained a small fire burning southeast of Jenkinson Lake in El Dorado County.

Susan Crane was devastated that her party-planning business went up in flames early Monday morning, but she and her husband, Lawrence, were showing the resilience that party people can have.

A website dedicated to the rebuilding of the McKinley Park play structure destroyed by fire last weekend has been set up to offer updates on fundraisers and other related events.

A woman suffered minor injuries trying to save her two small dogs from a fire that spread from the garage to the living quarters of a Carmichael home Tuesday evening.

Two wildfires burning in the Plumas National Forest have together consumed more than 1,300 acres in steep rugged country in Plumas County.

Back when Cecily Hastings was a new mother trying to collect thousands of dollars to build a better play structure at McKinley Park, she had to rely on word of mouth.

One of McKinley Park's most popular attractions – the beloved playground – was destroyed Saturday by an early-morning fire in what Sacramento firefighters are calling a case of arson.

An evacuation warning was issued Thursday night for residents of 20 homes in an area northeast of Groveland threatened by a wildfire that has burned 100 acres in Tuolumne County since Wednesday.

Firefighters Monday mopped up hot spots of a fire outside of the Yolo County community of Guinda.

A predawn thunderstorm lit up Sacramento skies Sunday night and Monday, while in the Sierra, lightning strikes sparked a number of small fires.