Steve Hill

Contra Costa County hazardous material chief says NuStar did not notify them of the tank explosion and fire at the fuel storage facility in Crockett — it was the media who alerted them.

Contra Costa County’s hazardous materials chief says NuStar didn’t notify them of the disaster — it was the media who alerted them. Jodi Hernandez reports.

A house in central Concord suffered significant damage Saturday afternoon in a fire believed to have been started by a propane tank fueling an outdoor grill, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman said.

The Bay Area will be hit with scorching temps this weekend and potential dry lightning storms.

Fire crews contained a brush fire that burned west of Martinez on Friday afternoon which burned to 24 acres but did not damage any homes or other structures. It was one of 38 fires in Contra Costa County in 24 hours.

Contra Costa Fire Protection District and Cal Fire crews battled a 3-to-5 acre brush fire near Martinez early Thursday morning, according to fire dispatch.

The opening of an East Bay fire station that was originally scheduled for May 1 has been delayed until Aug. 1, according to the Contra Costa Fire District.

A three-alarm fire that damaged a roofing supply company in Pittsburg on Sunday afternoon originated in an adjacent homeless encampment, according to a fire spokesman.

Firefighters on Sunday knocked down a blaze that burned at a Pittsburg roofing business and sent a towering plume of black smoke into the air above Highway 4.

Contra Costa County firefighters are on the hunt for properties that didn’t clear out the dead brush that can be a fire magnet as the deadline to create that “defensible space” was last weekend.

A grass fire in Pittsburg Friday evening shows that conditions are ripe for wildfires, a county fire spokesman said.

Fire crews were working late Tuesday evening to extinguish a stubborn kitchen fire in a high-end restaurant in Lafayette, county fire officials said.

On his last day on the job Wednesday, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District Chief Jeff Carman was on his way to a meeting in Antioch when he heard the report of a fire on Highgate Way in Pittsburg.

A 61-year-old man has died following a one-alarm fire at a home in El Sobrante in unincorporated Contra Costa County early Sunday morning, according to Contra Costa County Fire Protection District officials.

A fire damaged a home and destroyed several vehicles in Antioch on Tuesday morning while causing minor injuries to a firefighter, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman said.

A brush fire that prompted evacuations in Concord Friday restarted again Saturday. The blaze burned at least 268 acres off Ygnacio Valley Road Friday night and it was contained Saturday morning but firefighters say the wind may have caused the fire to restarted before noon, burning another acre of grass.

High winds caused thousands of dollars in damages across the Bay Area Saturday.

A three-alarm fire burned in a storage yard Wednesday evening in unincorporated Contra Costa County outside Martinez, according to the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District said.

Police were called after hundreds of job seekers on Thursday flooded a board meeting for the new Oakland Raiders stadium in Las Vegas and turned irate when they discovered they’d been had by a hoax.