One person and a dog are dead, and three people remain missing after a three-deck, 50-foot cabin cruiser carrying 20 people sank Tuesday afternoon in the rough, frigid waters of San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island. The passengers, believed to be mostly family members visiting from outside t...
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One person died, three people were missing and 16 were rescued from the waters off San Francisco after a pontoon boat sank Tuesday afternoon while carrying mostly family members as part of a memorial service, authorities said.
PG&E is warning that proactive power shutoffs are likely in multiple counties in the Bay Area on Wednesday and Thursday because of a forecast of hot, dry and windy weather in the region.
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PG&E is warning of the possibilty of planned power shutoffs to thousands of customers in the North and East Bay. The utility says the shutoffs may occur because of the threat of wildfires.
The U.S. Coast Guard and multiple Bay Area agencies are searching overnight for three missing people after a boat carrying 20 people capsized near Alcatraz, leaving one person dead and three others injured.
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Officials with the San Francisco Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard give an update on the capsized boat that sank near Alcatraz on Tuesday. After talking to witnesses, officials updated the number of missing people to three and the total number of people on the boat was 20, not 19, as they ...
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One person has died, two remain missing, and multiple Bay Area agencies are searching the waters in the San Francisco Bay after a pontoon boat carrying 19 people capsized Tuesday.
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San Francisco officials say one person has died, two people are missing and 16 others have been rescued from waters off Alcatraz Island after a pontoon boat sank.
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The vessel was carrying mostly family members as part of a memorial service, authorities said.
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Authorities said two people are still missing after a boat capsized off Alcatraz Island, updating an earlier report that one person was unaccounted for. One person died, and 16 others were rescued.
San Francisco's fire chief and Mayor Daniel Lurie detailed what happened when a boat capsized near Alcatraz Island.
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A pontoon boat with 20 passengers sank between the island and the Golden Gate Bridge. Rescue operations continue.
A water rescue was underway Tuesday afternoon after a boat fire in the San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island.
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Seventeen people were rescued and one person remains unaccounted for after a boat capsized near Alcatraz on Tuesday.
A Tuesday memorial service on a cabin cruiser boat took a tragic turn when the ship, with 20 people aboard, capsized on San Francisco Bay, officials say. At least one person is dead and now three are missing as the search and rescue effort continues into the night.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- One person was killed and three others remained missing Tuesday evening after a boat carrying 20 people capsized near Alcatraz Island, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. The incident occurred around 3:30 p.m. about 600 yards from Alcatraz Island as those on bo...
Rescue crews are responding to an apparent boat fire near Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco.
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(BCN) -- Thousands of PG&E customers in and near the San Francisco Bay Area could be dealing with proactive power shutoffs this week because of a forecast of hot, dry and windy weather in the region, the utility announced Tuesday. PG&E implements what it calls Public Safety Power Shutoffs to powe...
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