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Public Safety
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
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Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
Police arrest man after San Rafael bank threats
San Rafael police arrested Frear Stephen Schmid, 72, of Petaluma after he allegedly threatened to shoot employees at a downtown Third Street Citibank; police said he was booked on suspicion of felony criminal threats and illegal possession of unserialized firearms, and detectives seized multiple firearms, including two unserialized rifles, from his home.
Public Safety
Smoke expected from Mt. Tam prescribed burns
Marin County Fire and Marin Water are conducting two prescribed burns on the Mt. Tamalpais Watershed on Aug. 25 and Aug. 26, closing Bon Tempe roads and producing visible smoke across surrounding communities including San Rafael; residents are asked not to call 9-1-1.
Public Safety
San Rafael firefighters rescue dog from kitchen fire
Public Safety
San Rafael gets $108K grant for traffic enforcement
Public Safety
Police arrest man after San Rafael bank threats
San Rafael police arrested Frear Stephen Schmid, 72, of Petaluma after he allegedly threatened to shoot employees at a downtown Third Street Citibank; police said he was booked on suspicion of felony criminal threats and illegal possession of unserialized firearms, and detectives seized multiple firearms, including two unserialized rifles, from his home.
Public Safety
Smoke expected from Mt. Tam prescribed burns
Public Safety
Police arrest man after San Rafael bank threats
San Rafael police arrested Frear Stephen Schmid, 72, of Petaluma after he allegedly threatened to shoot employees at a downtown Third Street Citibank; police said he was booked on suspicion of felony criminal threats and illegal possession of unserialized firearms, and detectives seized multiple firearms, including two unserialized rifles, from his home.
Public Safety
Smoke expected from Mt. Tam prescribed burns
Public Safety
San Rafael firefighters rescue dog from kitchen fire
Public Safety
San Rafael gets $108K grant for traffic enforcement
Public Safety
Marin County manhunt underway after targeted Novato shooting
Travis Lee Wine, 31, was fatally shot in a targeted, gang-related attack in Novato's Ignacio neighborhood on Aug. 4, and the gunman remains at large after a multi-agency manhunt involving the Marin County Sheriff's Office, CHP aircraft and a K-9 unit.
Public Safety
San Rafael workers train as disaster service responders
San Rafael's Office of Emergency Services trained all city employees as Disaster Service Workers on Aug. 5, reinforcing the legal requirement that every municipal worker mobilize during a declared emergency and urging residents to take the same preparedness steps at home.
Public Safety
San Rafael's Canal faces worst flood risk in decades, scientists say
Climate scientists warned at a state senator's Aug. 4 town hall that record Pacific Ocean temperatures and converging tidal cycles could produce the highest sea levels ever recorded on the California coast around Christmas 2026, posing serious flooding risk to San Rafael's Canal neighborhood.
Public Safety
San Rafael sees second downtown emergency closure this week
Marin Water closed two lanes on 2nd Street between B and Brooks streets Thursday night to repair an urgent water leak at 1015 2nd St., with work scheduled from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Friday.
Public Safety
Gas line rupture forces evacuations, shelter-in-place in downtown San Rafael
Workers struck a PG&E gas line near Fifth Avenue and B Street in downtown San Rafael on Wednesday, July 29, triggering evacuations at two buildings and a shelter-in-place order that lasted nearly three hours before the line was repaired.
Public Safety
Prescribed burn near Martin Griffin Preserve sends smoke over Marin
Marin County Fire Department conducted a prescribed burn near Martin Griffin Preserve on Tuesday, July 28, starting at 8 a.m., and officials asked residents not to call 911 about the smoke.
Public Safety
San Rafael police drone leads to arrest of two in Irwin Street shooting
San Rafael police used their Drone as First Responder to track and help arrest two juveniles who fired a handgun at a passing vehicle on Irwin Street on Tuesday, July 28, booking both into Marin Juvenile Hall on felony charges.
Public Safety
Family sues Marin County over jail death of Tammy Manzanilla
The family of Tammy Manzanilla filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Marin County and the Central Marin Police Authority, alleging jail staff ignored her worsening medical condition during 18 hours in a sobering cell before she was released and died at a hospital in April.
Public Safety
Peacock Gap Garage Fire Destroys Rare DeLorean, No Injuries
A 1984 DMC DeLorean was destroyed in a garage fire at 141 San Marino Drive in San Rafael's Peacock Gap neighborhood on Sunday, July 26, after a mechanical malfunction ignited the engine; two residents escaped unharmed.
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San Rafael youth basketball coach charged with felony sex crimes against teen
Charles Ramon Huff, 57, a Mill Valley man who coached at the San Rafael-based North Bay Basketball Academy, faces three felony counts of lewd acts upon a 15-year-old girl and is scheduled for arraignment Tuesday, July 28, in Marin County.
Public Safety
San Rafael fire officials refine cause of July 15 marsh fire near Home Depot
The San Rafael Fire Department's July 23 press release says two power lines contacting during high winds, not a single fallen line, ignited the July 15 vegetation fire near Home Depot on Shoreline Parkway. The department also credited the retailer's vegetation clearing for helping firefighters contain the roughly 4,000-square-foot blaze in about 20 minutes.
Public Safety
McNears Beach gets C grade as Marin logs 10 sewage spills
McNears Beach in San Rafael received a C grade in Heal the Bay's 2026 annual water quality report, the only non-creek Marin beach to miss an A, as the county recorded 10 sewage spills totaling 55,000 gallons during the reporting period.
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