Paramedics work on gunshot victim in early morning shooting Saturday.

Sacramento, CA | Detectives are looking for answers in the wake of  an early morning Del Paso Heights homicide.

At approximately 3:15 a.m. Saturday morning, Sacramento Police Officers were called to the 2500 block of Traction Avenue for a report of a subject that had been shot. According to Sacramento Police, when they arrived they found a 26 year-old-man down on the ground with a wound to the upper chest. Read more »

Firefighters knew total structural failure was immanent and backed out to safety.

Sacramento, CA | After an arson fire series at a former Cal Worthington dealership, the fourth fire burned it down.

Sacramento Fire Department responded to a report of smoke coming from a vacant dealership Thursday night at the south-west corner of Franklin Blvd. and Florin Rd. in South Sacramento. When Engine 56 arrived they encountered flames coming from the boarded up doors Read more »

Truck 6, caring only ladders and rescue gear, had no water to extinguish what became a two alarm blaze.

Sacramento, CA | Engine 6 Brown-out becomes factor in another Oak Park structure

SFD firefighters responded to a report of a back porch fire Wednesday morning in Oak Park. Fire crews were called out just thirty minutes after the first in engine was put on “brown out” for forty-eight hours. Read more »

Officers hold possible armed parolee at gunpoint after 30 minute pursuit.

Sacramento, CA | SacPD and assisting agencies take a 30 minute high-speed tour of Sacramento chasing a parolee at large (PAL).

Early Saturday morning, Sacramento Police Department officers engaged a pursuit with a known parolee at large assumed to be armed and dangerous. The pursuit lasted about thirty minutes according to Lieutenant Brown, SacPD, and involved California Highway Patrol officers and Sacramento Sheriff deputies in addition to their own units. Read more »

An arson burned wood playground structure smolders early Saturday morning in McKinley Park

Sacramento, CA | A large, wood playground structure burned early Saturday morning in McKinley park.

Sacramento firefighters responded to a report of a fire at McKinley Park on Alhambra Blvd. early Saturday morning. When they arrived they found the large wood playground structure fully involved with fire and the trees above catching fire.

Fire crews got an initial knockdown on the blaze quickly, however Read more »

Firefighters at higher risk than usual in string of recent vacant dealership fires

Sacramento, CA | Firefighters respond to third fire in vacant South area dealership

Sacramento Firefighters responded to the old vacant car dealership at the corner of Franklin and Florin Friday afternoon for the third time in two weeks. Assistant Chief Niko King stated that they expect to be responding to the structure again and have been pre-planning. Read more »

Sheriff SWAT team mounts up to move in on a Florin home where a woman was fatally shot earlier in the morning.

Sacramento, CA | Suspects from a Florin home are being sought for the shooting death of a 38-year-old woman.

At approximately three o’clock Wednesday morning, a man and a woman were out on the sidewalk in front of a residence in the 7900 block of Loucreta Drive in the Florin neighborhood of South Sacramento when a male from the residence came out and told them that they needed to leave, according to Deputy Jason Ramos, spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff Department. Read more »

A dozer cuts a fire-line around the fire in an effort to stop the blaze and separate the burn from the unburned fuel.

Sacramento, CA | Firefighters battle a blaze near a Sacramento community.

A  large fire broke out in a field, Saturday, July 14, 2012, north-east of Downtown Sacramento in Rio Linda. When fire crews arrived, nearly ten acres had already been consumed and was making a run, crossing one creek and headed toward the next. Firefighters made a stand at the road and held the fire there. Read more »

Sac City Firefighters extinguish occupied burning vehicle after early morning rollover accident

Sacramento, CA | The solo occupant of a vehicle was killed early Saturday morning when his car crashed and burst into flames.

Early Saturday morning, a vehicle traveling south on highway 99 from Florin was traveling at a slow rate of speed and straddling the slow lane and shoulder at approx 65MPH according to CHP. Read more »

DART diver prepares to go down and execute a training exercise in the flowing, murky, Sacramento River

Sacramento, CA | As the heat turns up, so does the ratio on drowning potentials on Sacramento’s waterways.

Tuesday evening, DART Team members conducted a training exercise in the Sacramento River at the Broderick Boat Ramp in West Sacramento. The team trained on manual dexterity by diving down and working with commonly found entanglements under water. Read more »