Accidental, and yes, they are trying to determine whether smoke detectors were in working order. Ive seen the fire, like, i guess the smoke coming out of the windows. Reporter jose rosa heard noise and checked the apartment next door. Neighbor richard reid heard banging at his front door. Yelling get out, get out, fire, fire, fire. We got out. Its thats it. Reporter he ran out and saw the unit upstairs on fire. It was pretty scary. Pretty scary. I dont know, the flames were just unbelievable. Unbelievable. Ive never seen anything like that. Reporter this woman lives on south ninth street and tried to help. Neighbors say a family of four stayed in the apartment, including a teen daughter and young adult son. The nicest people. Should not happen to the nicest people. Reporter san jose firefighters did not describe the relationship with the victims, but say four people were rescued. The Coroners Office said three people have died. They believe there are 14yearold girl, a 28yearold man and
Garvin when you take a look at marty brounsteins body of work as an author, something immediately stands out. One of his books is not like the others. Marty absolutely, and i always say, its the most difficult thing ive ever done, but its probably the most important thing ive ever done. Garvin marty is a longtime management consultant, whose writing credits mostly include books in the for dummies series. Martys latest book, however, is a world away from that, yet very close to his heart. Marty its a true story of rescue in the holocaust. Theres not many of those stories that are well known. Garvin two among the righteous few a story of courage in the holocaust tells the story of frans and mien wijnakker, a dutch couple who saved the lives of over 2 dozen jews during the Second World War by hiding them in their home and from the nazis. Marty all right, good start. Other factors of why so few helped garvin marty says the idea to write the book began with a trip in 2009 to the netherlands
Two new blazes that fired up thursday. One is known as the lilac fire, which is about 45 miles north of san diego. Sot nick schuler, Cal Fire Division chiefpeople who have not been currently impacted the fire. They need to prepare as if they are going to be impacted by the fire. Where are they gonna go. . What are their escape routes . What is their communication with their family . What are they going to do with their pets . And do they have their vehicles loaded to go. Meanwhile firefighters battling the fast moving flames across ventura and Los Angeles County are taking a beating,as they work around the clock to contain a series of difficult fires. Sot i use to be a firefighter and fires like this, wildfires, are just absolutely scary. You just dont know whats going to happen, they change on a whim, Mother Nature is powerful. robin thanks kristen. The smoke from the fires the smoke from the fires could be affecting the bay area today. Now lets move on this morning with a check on we
Continued dry weather with mild days and clear but cool nights. No rain is in the forecast for the next 7 to 10 days. A spare the air alert is in effect for today, saturday and sunday. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. james james we continue to follow breaking news this morning out of Southern California. Wildfires causing mass devastation and now there is another fire burning in san diego county. darya this is new video from that fire. So far all of the fires have forced more than 200thousand people out of their homes. The fires have also combined to burn more than 140thousand acres. james and here is a map showing exactly where these fires are burning. Firefighters are still struggling to get the upper hand on any of these fires. darya Kristen Holmes is in Ventura County this morning with the latest. Purple is the new red in california as officials announce the fire weather is so extreme they are amending its colorcoding system to include
The bus started to fish tail. Struck the Center Divide and came across the lanes and rolled over. Officers say the driver submitted to field sobriety tests. He was able to perform the test as we explain. And he was not to be impaired. Reporter they say its unclear how long he was driving with the company. But he is cooperating. They sold the bus to another company last year. That company is based in oakland. We spoke off cam are with an Operation Manager at the company. The company has gps monitors on the bus and the bus appeared to be traveling at a safe speed. He adds the driver is one of the most experienced. After the crash the bus was towed to a lot in San Francisco. We want to make sure there were no measuchanic kl issues w the bus. They were on the way to a Holiday Party on peninsula. The injured men and women in their 20s and 30s. The two other patients were discharged today from another hospital in San Francisco. We asked the chp how fast they thought the bus was going. They d