Investigators. They very quickly yellow taped off several blocks around this large home allowing no one in no one out, and began an extensive crime scene investigation. Now, again, what you said, that we hear that three people are deceased. Another person who is said to be in extremely, extremely condition, and right now the neighbors in the area say they dont know much other than there was a fire and that is why the crime scene investigators are here trying to determine what happened. We have someone from the Mayors Office coming over, and we understand that both the mayor and chief lanier will speak in a few minutes. Yacky, im curious, any information bt the age of the victims . Has that information come to you . Jim, we do not know the age of the victims, however, i did talk just a short time ago to a man who say thass that he believes that his brother was at this house earlier today, his brother works for the cleaning company, and he says that he has been trying to get his brother
A public funeral is starting right now at d. C. Armory at southeast. Mayor bowser acting fire chief gregory deem representative Eleanor Holmesnorton and other dignitaries are expected to eulogize lieutenant mcerarae. He will then be buried at fort lincolngcoln cemetery. He was promoted to sergeant in 2003 and lieutenant in 2008. The 44yearold collapsed and died after fighting a fire in northwest last week. Lieutenant mcrae was the 100th d. C. Firefighter to die in the line of duty. The medical examiner has not yet determined a cause of death. Lieutenant mcrae leaves behind a wife and three children. Barbara . Thank you, kristen. New information on the developing story out of the district. D. C. Arson investigators are looking into a suspicious fire that was just blocks away from the naval abservetory. Four bodies were found inside the home on Woodland Drive yesterday and we now know at least one of those victims suffered Blunt Force Trauma to the head. News 4s Megan Mcgrath is live in
Fire that killed one person. The flames shooting off the small home on willard avenue in san jose were big. They threatened a neighboring apartment complex. My god. Firefighters arrived and kickly called for a second alarm to keep the flames from spreading. A large explosion rattled the neighbor. We heard a big boom. We came outside and the house in the back was engulfed. Firefighters entered the home. They found a person dead 6 away from the front door. A county Arson Task Force is trying to figure what caused the fire and how the victim died. Family member of the people would live in the front house say a middleabled man if his 40s lived alone in the small home in the back of the property. Him and his cats. He had so many cats. That was his way of life. Feeding the pigeons and cats. Hose dropped off his daughter with his family in the front house go to work and relieved it find out she escaped unharmed. I hug her and said thank god you are okay. I spoke with the medical examiners off
Are investigating whether or not students may have played a role in releasing that gas valve. This hurried, jumbled mess not caused bit last class bell, its students of skyline rushing to leave the school. Alarm went off. They smelled gas around the 50 building not too far from our classroom. Reporter it started because of a cold classroom. They asked Building Maintenance to turn on the heat. That is what happened. Something was wrong. Reporter something was very wrong. Crews smelled gas. Pg e called to locate the source the Campus Safety protocol put into action the school was evacuated with everybody ordered to the football field while oakland fire and fg and e investigated. The leak came from a valve according to officials in an old science room the school is investigating if someone turned it on, possibly a student. Oakland Unified School District building and ground crews are responsible for the line. I want to know if this is healthy for not. They need to get this fixed. Reporter
I want to give you a quick timeline here. As we get going tomorrow morning, were mainly dry. Perhaps a little bit of drizzle with rain still offshore. By 8 00, 9 00 or so its moving into north bay as well as the central bay. Well deal with hit or miss showers for most of the morning and first half of the afternoon. By 2 00 or so notice it begins to pick up, and look what is in store for the evening drive home. It is going to be wet. It is going to be windy in some areas. It is going to be messy. The showers will continue into the overnight hours. Thursday morning, the showers do continue before they finally taper off so that is storm no. 1. We will have sierra snow. Ill talk about how much snow, how often rain and how long it is going to rain coming up. Gasia. Rain in the forecast is welcome news for water managers, but concerns about Water Supplies in this drought remain. At this hour, the Santa Clara Valley Water District is discussing a plan to ask customers to cut water use by 20 .