San Jose Fire Capt. Mark Moalem is accused of stealing controlled medications, including morphine, that are typically used by paramedics to treat the ill or injured in emergencies.

Students reported having difficulty breathing what was eventually determined to be elevated levels of carbon dioxide in a Sunrise Middle School classroom this morning at 9, fire officials said.

San Jose Fire Chief Robert Sapien Jr. told City Council members Tuesday that unspecified “appropriate disciplinary action” had been taken and that he considered his investigation of the Oct. 5 incident at The Pink Poodle closed.

The 19-second video went viral across multiple social media platforms almost immediately after it was posted on Instagram Oct 6, first by a private individual.

The city will donate more than $1 million in safety equipment to first responders in Ukraine, including breathing apparatus air packs, mask-mounted regulators, air cylinders and several hundred breathing apparatus masks.

Witnesses on the scene of the fire alerted arriving police officers to a person suspected of starting the fire., and he was arrested and charged with arson while firefighters fought to control the blaze.

San Jose fire officials reported that no one was injured in the fire, the fire appeared to have started in the lumber area of the store and the cause of the fire was not suspicious.

More than 50 hours after a gas leak was first reported, PG&E released detailed information, in response to questions from San Jose Inside, about the Wednesday leak that had forced the evacuation of hundreds of San Jose residents.

A gas line ruptured by a private contractor near Race Street and Eugene Avenue forced the evacuation Wednesday afternoon of approximately 325 homes in a neighborhood west of San Jose Diridon Station.

Fire officials said “vegetation fires” can ignite easily with dry grass and rising temperatures.

A gas pipe was struck during construction on a residential unit earlier that morning.

The blaze, near the Guadalupe Freeway, has closed West St. John Street between Almaden Boulevard and North Autumn Street.

Even as gender equality in most traditionally male sectors has improved, women in Santa Clara County continue to be shut out of firefighting.

Without air-refilling stations in San Jose’s highrises, firefighters say they’d have to lug metal oxygen tanks up flight after flight of stairs. 

The flames engulfed a vacant building on San Fernando Street.

More than 13,000 firefighters throughout the state are battling record blazes that have darkened skies and forced 100,000 evacuations.