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Bay Area air quality advisory extended until Thursday due to smoke

  • Aug 6
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Wildfires may impact 2026 World Cup final

  • Jul 17
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As smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the US, can wearing a mask help?

  • Jul 17

How to protect yourself from poor air quality amid wildfire smoke

  • Jul 16

SJ house fire on July 4 leaves family displaced, dog critically hurt

  • Jul 10

SF firefighters demand insurance reforms after Ken Jones' cancer death

  • Jun 10

Retired SF firefighter dies from cancer after losing insurance battle

  • Jun 4

SF may ban smoking outside bars; experts support it, businesses don't

  • May 13

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6 years since San Francisco Bay Area's apocalyptic orange skies

  • Sep 9
2:18

Bay Area air quality advisory extended until Thursday due to smoke

  • Aug 6
2:06

SJ house fire on July 4 leaves family displaced, dog critically hurt

  • Jul 10
2:14

SF firefighters clash with Blue Shield at meeting over denied cancer care following Ken Jones' death

  • Jun 10
0:28

Retired San Francisco firefighter dies from lung cancer after Blue Shield denies treatment claims

  • Jun 4
2:02

SF may ban smoking outside bars; experts support it, businesses don't

  • May 13
1:56

Oakland fire: Displaced residents reportedly received eviction notices

  • Jan 21
0:53

Dozens displaced after fire rips through Oakland apartment building

  • Jan 20

Latest Videos

0:33

6 years since San Francisco Bay Area's apocalyptic orange skies

  • Sep 9
2:18

Bay Area air quality advisory extended until Thursday due to smoke

  • Aug 6
2:06

SJ house fire on July 4 leaves family displaced, dog critically hurt

  • Jul 10
2:14

SF firefighters clash with Blue Shield at meeting over denied cancer care following Ken Jones' death

  • Jun 10
0:28

Retired San Francisco firefighter dies from lung cancer after Blue Shield denies treatment claims

  • Jun 4
2:02

SF may ban smoking outside bars; experts support it, businesses don't

  • May 13
1:56

Oakland fire: Displaced residents reportedly received eviction notices

  • Jan 21
0:53

Dozens displaced after fire rips through Oakland apartment building

  • Jan 20

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Oakland building fire: Displaced residents reportedly received lease terminations

After a three-alarm fire broke out in Oakland on Monday, several displaced tenants are even more confused about their future after they allegedly received eviction notices.

  • Jan 21
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Several injured after fire rips through Oakland building; rapper Mistah F.A.B.'s store damaged

Three residents and a firefighter were sent to the hospital after a fire gutted multiple floors of an Oakland residential building. Rapper Mistah F.A.B.'s clothing store was also damaged, but he says he's focused on helping others and that "retail is not the detail."

  • Jan 20

Civic Center BART station reopens after blown insulator causes fire and damages track, agency says

The Civic Center BART station reopened on Tuesday following an electrical fire on its tracks, the transit agency announced. "It looked like a tornado almost. I didn't know what was going on at first."

  • Nov 26, 2025
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Bay Area Air District board votes to lower criteria to declare Spare the Air alerts

Previous years have averaged 15 Spare the Air alerts, but the air district said the lower threshold could mean more than twice that number of alerts may be called as a result.

  • Oct 2, 2025

Stanford study projects increased US death toll due to wildfire smoke, climate change

The largest increase in smoke exposure deaths would be in California, projected to be 5,000 of the 70,000 excess deaths. While those who live in the vicinity of a burning wildfire are clearly impacted, people even thousands of miles away can be too.

  • Sep 23, 2025