A two alarm fire reduced two homes to rubble in the East San Jose foothills today and came close to a third. And fire crews add. It didnt help their efforts, that the fire caused gas barbeque grill propane tanks on the property. To exxplode. Kron fours jeff bush shows you the damage and explains what happened. Cal fire crews and the San Jose Fire Department were busy fighting the massive fire on clayton road. The call went out around 4 30 and by the time firefighters arrived, the two homes were already fully engulfed with fire. You can see just how bad the damage. The frames of the homes are all that remain after the quick moving fire came through and destroyed everything in the way. These images from our helicopter partners at abc 7 tell the story of destruction and the firefighting effort that kept the flames from spreading any further than they did. In addition to the destroyed homes, several cars were consumed by the fire. Look you can see just how hot this fire was. The Aluminum W
Grass. It eventually spread to 2 homes that were destroyed before the fire was ultimately brought upped control. They continueed to fight the house fire which his spread to second house. Both homes completely destroyed and able to keep the grass fire from spreading other than the spot fire that occurred later on in the incident. Witnesses person was seen running from one of the homes but no reports of any injuries. Officials say they have been unable to contact the owner of either home at this point. Investigators still trying to figure out exactly how it started. We have a leif report on this tonight on 7 news at 11 00 over on channel 7. Arson investigators now at the scene of car fire that happened this afternoon. Just before 6 smoke came pouring out of the garage under one rincon tower. Sprinklers helped stop the consider fir from spreading in the San Francisco parking garage during rush hour. Bmw was on fire and firefighters had to use the crow bar in order to pry open the hood. No
Putting an extra off hours they must work overtime to help to solve crime in the city so starting june 29th san jose will be required 1000 officers to work overtime this is that is a bad idea, but the union said that as force overtime could put more fatigue and officers and especially at the time officers are leaving for other jobs. There will be monitoring this closely and making sure their forces to go get burned out there believe that over time is necessary to keep the public safe. a Business Owner reflects of is terrified as net when the car crashed into the store over the weekend. The city feels hes lucky to be alive. , live thats the big thing. Despite the big 30,000 damage done to the store kron then this is being alive is also the most important thing. Plus a terrifying crash. Right through the front of a store. We talk with the man who says that car almost took his life. And were looking ahead to a warm and sunny weekend. With bay area. Good morning. It is day, date im james f