RELATED: Oakland Fire Department facing closure of 6 stations if budget proposal passes The Oakland Fire chief explained Friday that this is a brown out process that will keep the stations closed ...

The budget cuts that temporarily closed two Oakland Fire Department stations until the summer — with four more likely to browned out next month — had already led both the fire chief and union ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- As Oakland faces a crippling $129 million budget deficit, two firehouses are set to close next week to help close the gap and that could mean slower response times for ...

It is unknown which four fire stations would be affected. “The closure of seven firehouses would be the end of the Oakland Fire Department as we know it,” Unger told The Oaklandside.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Two Oakland fire stations closed on Monday in an effort ... The cuts to the fire department are expected to save about $5.5 million. And on Tuesday, the Alameda County Board ...

Oakland's fire chief said the temporary closure of two fire stations and using brownouts at other fire stations will help the city make up for a $130M deficit. Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington ...

Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington spoke Friday afternoon, saying there's a great amount of impact with stations closing, but his department's job is to lessen the impact to the public. " ...

We are severely understaffed,” said Jerry May, president of San Jose Firefighters Local 230 Union and a San Jose Fire ...