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The National Weather Service in San Francisco issued a Red Flag Warning for Alameda County, expected to last from 4 a.m. Wednesday until 7 p.m. Thursday.
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The city of Berkeley held wildfire drills Sunday to increase and evaluate city-wide preparedness in the case of a fire hazard. The drills were used to gauge how well local emergency response agencies could notify residents, order an evacuation and control traffic flow away from a fire, according to Berkeley Fire Department Assistant Chief Keith May.
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Two large eucalyptus trees within half a mile of one another came crashing down in North Berkeley on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, destroying one truck, as first reported by Berkeleyside.
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The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch and high wind advisory for all of Alameda County from Friday evening through Saturday morning, according to an AC alert Friday afternoon.
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The Clog is here to offer some guidance on what you can do to make sure that, should the time ever come, you’re prepared for a wildfire.
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The alert said the shut-off is canceled because Alameda County is no longer on weather watch.
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According to the alert, the affected areas are the East Bay Hills and fire weather zone 511, which includes all locations above 1,000 feet for the East Bay and the Diablo Range of Santa Clara County, including Mount Hamilton.
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The East Bay Regional Park District, a system of parklands and trails in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, has implemented extreme fire danger restrictions on all regional parks, according to its website.
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