Oakland Fire Department

Oakland Fire Department Assistant Chief Sean Laffan collapsed at the department office at City Hall Monday evening and later died of cardiac arrest at a local hospital, according to the fire department. He was 42.

Two semi trailers full of items donated to the Salvation Army burned early Sunday morning, destroying the trailers but resulting in no injuries, the Oakland Fire Department said.

The Oakland Fire Department reported responding to a fatal vehicle accident along with police and ambulance personnel Tuesday evening near East 20th Street and 23rd Avenue.

Hoping to reduce the volume of illegal fireworks in town, the Oakland Fire Department has set up collection barrels at six fire stations.

Hazmat crews responded to Oakland International Airport Tuesday morning after an unknown substance began off-gassing in luggage, sending some airport workers to the hospital, according to Oakland fire officials.

A pregnant woman is hospitalized after suffering burn injuries from an early Friday warehouse fire in Oakland. It was not immediately known if there were any other injuries from the blaze.

At least eight people are displaced following a fire early Friday at an Oakland warehouse that was red tagged and should not have been occupied. Sergio Quintana reports.

A pregnant woman is hospitalized after suffering burn injuries from an early Friday warehouse fire in Oakland. It was not immediately known if there were any other injuries from the blaze. Thom Jensen reports.

A woman is hospitalized after suffering burn injuries from an early Friday warehouse fire in Oakland. It was not immediately known if there were any other injuries from the blaze. Thom Jensen reports.

Fire destroyed a van and five makeshift dwellings Sunday afternoon at a homeless encampment in Oakland’s East Peralta neighborhood, displacing six people, the Oakland Fire Department reported.

While the city of Oakland waits for the verdict in the high-profile Ghost Ship trial, some want to know what the city of Oakland has learned from the tragedy.

While the city of Oakland waits for the verdict in the high-profile Ghost Ship trial, some want to know what the city of Oakland has learned from the tragedy. Melissa Colorado reports.

A goat was rescued Saturday night from a 40-foot-deep drainage pipe on the eastern edge of Oakland, the Oakland Fire Department reported Saturday night on social media.

The Oakland Fire Department battled two separate fires on the 6700 block of Estates Drive early Saturday morning, firefighters said.

A former top Oakland Fire Department official said on Tuesday that investigators didn’t find any evidence that Molotov cocktails or other explosives were thrown into the Ghost Ship warehouse at the time of a fire that killed 36 people in 2016.

WA former top Oakland Fire Department official said on Tuesday that investigators didn’t find any evidence that Molotov cocktails or other explosives were thrown into the Ghost Ship warehouse at the time of a fire that killed 36 people in 2016. Melissa Colorado reports.

An Oakland fire captain said on Tuesday that Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena told him in September 2014 that no one was living at the structure in Oakland’s Fruitvale district where 36 people perished in a fire in 2016.

The red flags were there. Gripping testimony from a firefighter on Tuesday who was inside the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland two years before it went up in flames, killing 36 people. The fire captain says the warehouse was packed with flammable materials and lacked a fire sprinkler system, but he never reported it. NBC Bay Area’s Melissa Colorado…

The defense lawyer for Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena alleged on Wednesday that the fire at the warehouse in Oakland in 2016 was an act of arson that Almena couldn’t have prevented and asked jurors to find him not guilty.