Bringing over household pilots become hazardous after fires. Propane cylinders, batteries, candles of paint. Degreasers, bleaches, ammunition. Roughly 20 teams spread out across Sonoma County working 12 to 14 hours in hazmat suits. I believe you are soaked to the bone. Yeah. But i have a few of these shirts. State and county emergency dlaek ragss allow them to enter every private property. Multiply it by six burned out structures. By the time they finish, feel a paid tens of millions of dollars. Were shooting for the end of november. If you were a betting man, would you put money on it . I dont bet. Abc7 news. Meanwhile, three families who lost their homes in the mend cino fire. They accuse the agency of being negligent. This is video taken by the ruiz family as the fire raged. It was scary. Very scary. Fire all over the place. So we left. One day he was celebrating his birthday with his wife and daughter. This is what it looked like before. Heres what it looked like after. He is one o
Special Police Committee meeting that just got underway. Officials are to vote on whether San Francisco officers should be armed with stun guns. For months now police chief William Scott has been pushed to get tasers into officers hands. He believes it gives them another less lethal option when trying to subdue a suspect, but protesters who are outside city hall right now think tasers are a bad idea. Unfortunately tasers are deadly. They do kill and they dont actually reduce incidences of shooting. So we think its really a step back from the deescalation and crisis intervention training the police are undergoing. As far as injury rates, the breadth of studies show it reduces suspect injuries and it also reduces injuries to officers. Back now to our live picture of the protesters, we are inside city hall right now. Were expecting a lot of Public Comment on this issue in that very room. The u. S. Justice department is recommending the tasers after its recent review of the department. Was
The agency has already handed out more than 4 million. Is fema doing enough to protect these people . Were changing every day looking at every process we have. Every single step of the way were looking at every single process to try to stop it, but were also trying to give out benefit to fire survivors. Its kind of a balance. Reporter and fema says local Law Enforcement in conjunction with federal Law Enforcement are already on the case looking into this, but they are also urging anyone who lives in one of these burned out areas to call this 1800 number on the bottom of your screen right now, 1800621 fema. Give them your information and ask them if there is already a claim in process and they can help you in clearing all that up. Have you spoken to any actual residents, anyone who tried to file a legitimate claim through fema . Reporter i have spoken to someone who has had their identity stolen, but they didnt have a burned out home. She actually lives in napa county. She said three of
Thats one advantage home turf brings a team. Its going to happen. They wanted to win at home. Reporter were on washington street a couple blocks from warrior headquarters where we found a sense of home turf championship history in the air. Do you know last time a team won on home turf . In 1970 the oakland as beat the dodgers. Its been that long. If the warriors win tonight it will be crazy in the streets. Reporter meantime outside oracle arena, no rush to get in yet and gold tshirts waiting, all extra large and people are still working. These cameras are pointed at every angle. Some belong to Carlos Gonzalez and his colleagues estimates they will snap 90,000 pictures. If confetti falls, will you have an angle for that . They will be in colors. Home turf, home advantage, warriors strong. Reporter abc7 news. A lot of people hoping they enjoy some confetti and perhaps a little champagne. We dont have rain slickers. We have to buy some to get ready. For what happens tonight, game 5. We ha
Homes on this street, causing 59 residents to evacuate on their own and 49 others to escape using trucks and boats. Sky 7 provides a clear sense of the scope of the flood as the nearby Pacheco Creek turned into a river, quickly threatening houses. This family was first urged to evacuate and then ordered to get away from the advancing floodwaters. She escaped on someones back. Piggyback ride. My little sister got a piggyback right. It wasnt that deep, i had boots on, but it was pretty bad. Reporter matts house flooded damaging the floor, carpeting and walls. A neighbor alerted him at 1 30 in the morning how fast the water was rising. It was about two or three feet deep out there moving fast. So it came out there, it came from a break somewhere up there and was coming around the house, came down the road around into that pasture. Reporter Pacheco Creek was primed to flood. Years of drought allowed trees and ground vegetation to take over the dry creek bed, creating log jams when the heav