Christopher Salcido

San Jose fire crews are working a rising number of fires near or inside homeless encampments, and there’s a growing concern among firefighters about the added risks these types of blazes pose.

It’s been a busy last few days for South Bay and San Francisco firefighters, dealing with not only local conditions but raging wildfires in neighboring communities that desperately require help.

Crews have knocked down a four-alarm fire in downtown San Jose Friday afternoon that caused “considerable” damage to three Victorian-style homes, a fire spokesman said.

A man who died while trapped under a fallen tree Monday afternoon in San Jose has been identified as 69-year-old Xingzhu Shi of China, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office.

Firefighters doused a two-alarm fire just north of Interstate Highway 280 in San Jose Wednesday.

Don Lee says he still can’t believe he survived. Last Friday, as he was driving south on Interstate 280 in San Jose, a huge metal beam flew off a truck ahead of him and headed straight for his car. He says that’s when he felt a surprising sense of calm. “I think I have a second life,” Lee told NBC...

Firefighters say a driver is lucky to suffer just a scratch on his arm after a metal tray loader flew off of a truck and went right through the windshield of the man’s BMW.

A two-alarm house fire displaced four people in East San Jose early Wednesday morning.

Firefighters have knocked down a two-alarm fire in San Jose that broke out Wednesday afternoon, a fire spokesman said.

Firefighters knocked down a one-alarm fire near U.S. Highway 101 in San Jose on Monday afternoon, a fire captain said.

The California Highway Patrol arrested 23-year-old Anthony Imbronone III of Gilroy at his home, after four people died in his Ford Mustang earlier this month.

The Gilroy community has lost four high school students to fatal car accidents in five days, and the loss is unprecedented.

Four people – including a young girl – died in a crash Tuesday night in Gilroy after the driver of a Ford Mustang hit a curb and overturned into a dried-out creek bed 20 feet below.

Firefighters are working to prevent a two-alarm house fire from spreading to other houses in a San Jose neighborhood this evening, a fire dispatcher said.

Six commercial addresses were evacuated Wednesday afternoon when a construction crew ruptured an unmarked 2-inch gas line in San Jose, authorities said.

The San Jose Fire Department knocked down a fire this evening at a carport and garden-style apartment between Stevens Creek and Kiely boulevards in west San Jose, a fire captain said.

A fire that damaged a portable building at an elementary school in San Jose on Monday night is being considered suspicious in nature, a fire spokesman said Tuesday.

A captain with the San Jose Fire Department died while off duty, a spokesman said Saturday.