Two new fires sparked today in Southern California, making a total of six fires that have forced people to leave their homes. Newest is liberty fire, started this afternoon in Riverside County and already burned 300 acres. You can see the trees blowing in strong winds fanning these flames so ferociously. Hours earlier lilac fire exploded, at least 20 structures destroyed before this neighborhood burned to ground. Last check, 2,500 acres and growing rapidly. Gained most ground on the smallest skirball fire near belair. 20 condetained. Rye fire is 7,000 acres. Thomas fire in Ventura County, almost 100,000 acres and destroyed 150 buildings. Creek fire, burned down five homes and ten other buildings, including this barn with 40 horses trapped, just six survived. Omar shows us what its like on the ground. Reporter strong winds and dry conditions are fuelling the raging wildfires in Southern California as officials continue to battle. 110,000 people evacuated from homes. Schools closed in at
Wintry weather. I am dan ashley. And i am dion lim for ama daetz. Snow, rain, hail, all across northern california. You can really hear the rattat of the hail coming down in walnut creek and you can hear it it in larkspurr as well. And they can this out. Those are snowflakes falling on mount volmer. We captured this just about 30 minutes ago. Lets bring in the expert. Weather anchor spencer christian. We have had lightning strikes and thunderstorms as well as the hail and wind. Active weather especially in the east bay. Just south of tracy along interstate 5. White and pink indicates snow. Lets take a look at the fremont area. Reports of hailstorms and downpours along interstate 880. All of the local highways there. Just pouring over there in that area. Swinging southward this active weather. And we will see it moving down through milpitas and down to san jose. And points southward. The storm still ranks one on the storm impact scale. You will notice a little mix of snow indicated by t
Damage to his hand after a firework exploded last night. It was an illegal firework. David louie is live tonight with the story of a Lesson Learned too late. David . Reporter it happened right here. Police officers say they found an 18yearold man who admitted that he was setting off illegal fireworks. Something went terribly wrong and Police Officers jumped in when the man started bleeding out, taking a belt to fashion a tourniquet. The biggest explosion of the night, prompting a neighbor to run over, who discovered a man with a bloody left hand. I believe he was in shock. He kept saying, what did i do, what did i do . And that was pretty much it. Reporter camera video shows the man suffered burns to the body. Two newark Police Officers happened to come by on fireworks enforcement patrol. The 18yearold told police he was setting off illegal fireworks. It was a mortar round where you typically put it into a tube and it shoots up into the air and explodes, which is usually the most dange
Every day this month. While it might not look so bad in mount suit row, one of the strongest storms is hours away. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Theyre not expecting sunny days until the weekend. Well get to the forecast. But first breaking news. This is from the east bay where police are investigating a suspicious package that led to the closure of the hayward station. This is bay fair station in san leandro where hundreds of riders headed towards hayward are forced off the train on to shuttle buses. Theyre lining up. Heres the station diagram. Trains are not running between south hayward stations. At this time of day, thats a big problem. B. A. R. T. Is working on a bus bridge but there is quite a wait. A lot of folks lined up. There are far more people than buses. The Alameda County bus a b. A. R. T. Spokesperson says you can expect delays because of this Significant Service disruption. Now back to storm watch. Todays rain closed the oakland zoo,
The shooting was the culmination of a series of burglaries that began inseed the town home. He was sitting upstairs listening to music while the burglar was breaking in downstairs. He entered, locked my dog into the backyard by moving a piece of furniture in front of the dog door and then rummaged around. He went in my refrigerator, went through a couple closets, apparently stole nothing though and then exited through my front door. Reporter there were a couple items missing, a soda and a piece of string cheese from the refrigerat refrigerator. I happened to look out the window and there was my screen hanging sideways all bent up. The man tried to get into his house. I went out to open the to close the gate and i noticed that all the gates down the way and thats when i started notifying the neighbors. Reporter the suspect entered at least three homes in chimney rock court. In one he also picked up a sandwich. The final stop, where the burglar entered through this window and shot a 30ye