Fire crews stage and set up to handle a level 3 hazmat incident (click this image to view more photos of this incident)

Sacramento, CA | A level 3 Hazmat situation shuts down a large industrial area in South Sacramento.

Wednesday morning, the Sacramento City Fire Department was called to Mike and Sons Inc, in the 8500 block of Elder Creek Road, for a commercial trailer fire. When firefighters arrived “they realized the doors were shut and there was a very pungent odor; so they turned this into a level three hazmat which is the highest level of hazmat response that we have”, Niko King, Assistant Chief for Sacramento City Fire Department stated. Read more »

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Sacramento, CA | An unruly crowed gets evacuated and South Sacramento Walmart temporarily shut down as authorities gain control.

A large group of South Sacramento shoppers became unruly in the Florin Towncenter Walmart early Black Friday morning in the electronics department. Read more »