Christien, as dawn has broken, we are getting a much better look at the area that is burning. Reporter absolutely. That is exactly what firefighters are looking for at this point in time. The bear fire 0 containment. Estimated around 125 acres. Now that the sun is starting to come up, the heat is starting to warm up, and that smoke now started to go higher and higher airborne, this fire very, very large. And at this point unchecked. There are at least three crews back there fighting this fire. Fire crews tell me that they believe they have enough crews here on scene. Theyre working to bring more crews in as the day progresses. Lets see how the fire progressed overnight. It started around 10 30 last night with a fire at a home. That fire then spread to some of the nearby wildland. Firefighters were called to that structure fire. Again, 10 30 last night. Now estimated at 125 acres. Santa cruz county emergency officials sent out a reverse 911 call to residents living within four miles of
The bear fire has grown to 271 acres. Right now it is 5 contained. 600 firefighters are on the fire line in Santa Cruz County. 150 homes are threatened. The fire started around 10 30 pm when a house caught fire in boulder creek. Paul chambers is near the fire lines right now. Several firefighters have been hurt. Reporter that is correct. Five firefighters in all. We are less than a mile away and although we cant see the fire from where we are at. Cal fire says they had hundreds of personnel working to extinguish the flames. Helicopters took passes over dry brush pouring gallons of water on the fire burning in santa cruz fire county. It started around 10 30 pm on monday night when cruise got a call of a structure fire in the bear cave area. As soon as they got around the bend and i came around the bend, the whole thing was lit up. Reporter at least four homes were destroyed and the fire has burned more than 270 acres. In the fires path was sandra was home. Everything is gone. It is one
Because of Deadly Police shootings. They say they were justified because the victims were armed with knives and refused to drop them. The police chief and the mayor is implementing reform for deadly force and the police chief issued a statement that says we respect the protestors and their commitment to reform. We are relieved of the Hunger Strike ended as we dont want anyones health at risk apt protestors will be out here until 8 00 tonight. You mentioned 17 days of action. Did they say when they are planning the next protest . Reporter we know there is a vigil scheduled for wednesday evening but as for other protests we dont have any word on that yet. Monte francis in San Francisco. Thank you. Now to ktvu Paul Chambers with more on the police bias report released late this afternoon. Paul. Frank, this is the 5th and final meeting of the Blue Ribbon Panel with the public. Now the comments came from the findings and preliminary findings. No final report has been issued at this time. So
One person died in this crash. The coroner is on the way. They have evidence tow trucks to preserve some of this evidence here. You can see the video. Now, we have one of our reporters on the scene gathering more details and we will try to find out from chp how this collision occurred. In fact, these are live pictures. You can see these vehicles completely burned out. This looks terrible. Again, one person did die. I do believe that i do see the Alameda County coroner unit on the scene. Westbound 580, this is going to ab collision that is going to take time to clear up. There is the big rig over there involved as well. We are going to stay here and get more information. We will have a live report from the scene coming up. But avoid the area. Lets put the map up real quick. Even though these are great pictures, i want to tell drivers more about the alternates. The simple answer is, there are no good alternates, because dublin boulevard is very, very slow. That is moving worse than the f
Implus imriplicit bias training. In response, police chief says command level officers have already gone through the program. My goal is to have the entire program trained once by the end of the year. Reporter and sur reiterated this warning. There is no room in the San Francisco Police Department for anyone who holds these types of hateful and discriminatory views. Reporter adachis office is reviewing 207 criminal cases in which lie and the other two officers were involved to see if they should be dismissed for possible bias. Vic lee, abc 7 news. And a live look outside San Franciscos Mission Police station where you can see activists and their signs gathering for a rally to protest recent fatal shootings involving police officers. That rally starts in about a half hour. Many of these people have been on a Hunger Strike since late last week. Theyre calling for the resignation of mayor ed lee and the firing of police chief greg sur. Berkeley is looking at ways to improve the Police Dep