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The city audit found that BFD is understaffed and was using “unreliable” data to track property inspections, putting the city at risk for fire incidents.
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Berkeley Fire Department responded to a report that three people had fallen ill after being exposed to a white powder at Berkeley City College.
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Berkeley City Council will consider an ordinance proposed by the Police Review Commission, or PRC, to regulate the use of surveillance technologies, including gunshot detectors or social media analytics software, at their meeting Jan. 23.
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Berkeley Police Department notified the public of a structure fire on Warring Street in the 2600 block in a Nixle alert issued about 6 a.m.
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A woman fell 30 to 40 feet off of Grizzly Peak around 9 p.m. Sunday, landing on South Park Drive and sustaining facial lacerations, according to Berkeley Fire Department on-duty Battalion Chief Bill Kehoe.
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A brush fire near westbound Highway 80 and Gilman Street caused a temporary traffic closure Monday afternoon.
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BFD received a report about 7:12 p.m. of smoke coming from the top of a two to three-story building at the address, as heard on a police scanner.
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The Grizzly Fire, which started Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Fish Ranch Road in the Berkeley Hills, is no longer actively burning, according to Oakland Fire Department Battalion Chief Melinda Drayton.
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UCPD arrested a suspect Wednesday afternoon for an alleged incident involving arson that occurred on Grizzly Peak Boulevard at 1:07 p.m., one minute after Berkeley Police Department and Berkeley Fire Department received a report of “a column of smoke and flames” in the direction of the Berkeley Hills at 1:06 p.m.
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A fire which broke out at the intersection of Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Fish Ranch Road in the Berkeley Hills yesterday is currently 50 percent contained, according to Oakland Fire Department Battalion Chief Melinda Drayton.
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