Four Oakland fire stations that were slated for closure will remain open if councilmembers approve an ordinance to redirect ...

Oakland Fire Department Lt. Matt Amormino rode shotgun in his fire engine, past the burned-out vehicles and eucalyptus-studded East Bay hills that make Fire Station ... at least 29 people and ...

The Oakland City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to allow three temporarily closed fire stations to reopen ...

Four Oakland ... of multiple fire stations that are already closed or at risk of closing. However, the city council was expected to vote on allocating that money toward the fire department on ...

Oakland city leaders say ... allocate the $8 million towards the fire department at their March 4th meeting. If they vote against it, four more stations are expected to close in March.

Oakland averted the closure of four fire stations due to budget measures but will keep three closed until July.

The Oakland City Council on yesterday (Tuesday) unanimously passed a resolution to allow three temporarily closed fire ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The City of Oakland says it will keep open four fire stations rather than temporarily close them in the face of a nearly $130 million budget shortfall. Three other stations are ...

Oakland councilmembers unveil plan to keep fire stations open Money would come from several funding sources Two stations would reopen and four others would not have to close OAKLAND, Calif.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Oakland city councilmembers announced that the city does have money to save the seven fire stations they were projecting to close amid a $129 million budget deficit.

"Closing seven stations would have been about 30% of our capacity in the fire department," Unger told KTVU on Monday. "And it would have been the end of the Oakland Fire Department as we know it.