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Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Con Fire) on Monday announced a return to full responses for all grass, vegetation and wildland fires — which consists of sending a minimum of five firefighting apparatus and crews to the scene — because of the early arrival of seasonal fire weather. During the winter months, such responses have required only a single engine, but with rain totals at about 35 to 40 percent of normal, prompting a Stage 1 drought declaration in the region, fire sea...

A firefighter and a paramedic were shot in a drive-by shooting while responding to a call in Antioch Saturday night, Contra Costa Fire Officials said.

ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — A drive-by shooting wounded a firefighter and a paramedic who...

A drive-by shooting wounded a firefighter and a paramedic who were responding to a call late Saturday in Antioch.

Given the short time it took for them to arrive, i would have to assume they come from the companies that contribute to this organization here in the area. thats correct. we have two tanks that are currently burning. we are cautiously optimistic we are going to get the upper hand on them. as youve seen observing these fires the last couple of hours, we have had our ups and downs. our goal was to get those fires contained and extinguished and while were doing that and while were seeing these flar...

Information from contra costa fire. they say there are approximately 42 units at nustar firefighting this fire. they come from all sorts of agencies, count fire, crockett fire department, richmond, cal fire and even east bay regional park district. also, there is what we call the petrol chemical mutual aid association. theyre on the scene with specialized resources working under that unified command they have to control this incident. a serious situation with response units from chevron, shell, ...

Bumper-to-bumper traffic. only 23 minutes from where the fire is burning on 1290 san pablo avenue. were hear with one of the residents who said he did hear the explosion and he described it as an earthquake and said it was like a boom. what else did you hear? >> that was all that i heard until i came out in the front of my house. i saw the smoke coming up and i said, it must have been an explosion. >> he says he saw the smoke coming up and he said this might be an explosion. >> tell me your name...

Blast or catching fire. they were successful in that regard. as you can tell now, look on the left, theyve been spraying non-stop foam and flame retardant there. it looks like its been snowing there, completely covering that part of the facility. you see two collapsed tankers on the middle of your screen. all this foam that they continue to pour onto what is left of this fire. >> you dont want to tune away right now. we understand the press conference is about to start in two minutes, about one ...

At that point it will no longer be a concern for the adjacent tanks that are right now threatened by fire. those threatened tanks, well continue to cool those with water in an attempt to keep them from becoming involved in the fire. we have about 42 firefighting units on scene and a lot of support personnel beyond that. i would estimate that we have close to 200 people on scene all told to manage this incident. the fire jurisdictions that are involved, ive already mentioned law enforcement, cali...

The question was regarding the earthquake last night at around 10:30 p.m. i believe in pleasant hill. it was a 4.5 or 4.7 earthquake and whether that might be related to this. at this point it would be purely conjecture. what i can say about that and the investigation of the fire is that in the last few minutes the decision has been made by the incident commanders to bring in the con fire fire investigation unit and theyve begun their work to investigate the fire. they wont be able to do all of ...