Closu contra costa. Chambers is live right now. Reporter right now theyre talking about more closures and more reductions ahead. We want to catch fires early if we can and thats the case here today. Around 1 15 this afternoon crews respond to a fire. Ten minutes later things were ul controlled. It is kind of ironic that there is a need to up staff but we are still nowhere near to our normal daily prior to 2011. Now, up staffing means going from 20 to 24 engine daily. The attack on that is the main sourc funding of the Fire Department here. I have a 4yearold and a 6yearold, it is scary that we dont have a fire house close to us. You know maybe they can work something out to get it back open, you know what i mean, it takes a lot of stress off of peoples mind. According to the president of the union of the firefighter in contra costa we got the schedule when the emergency usually happens and when they occur, i think over all the public is going to lose. Reporter the public will have a cha
Violent groups. Call them in, try to get them on the straight and narrow. We do mean business. Were going to follow through and make a difference in violent crime. The feds say they will continue to target oaklands most wanted as long as the chief needs them. In the past few years the come bind deaths of officers have cleared 300 warrants. 506 wanted in homicide and attempted had had cases. Linda, the chief says he is going to keep operating operation cease fire, but the gang members, are they cooperating . Reporter we are a little skeptical, but the chief estimates a third of the gang members they have contacted have responded favorably. Federal charges with longer prison charges to those who dont cooperate. All right. Reporter they have to try something. They do. Didnt take long for a marin county jury to decide the fate of a man accused of killing four women. After just about eight hours jurors found joseph naso guilty on all counts. Our don knapp was in the courtroom when the verdi
Barrel they are repairing until 7 30 this morning so the onramp is closed. New this morning the Oakland City Council has voted to hire the former top cop of los angeles and new york as a police consultant. Last night the city council listened to Public Comment and debated until 2 30 this morning before kidding to hire bill bratton known for zero tolerance strategy including the stop and frisk policy. Opponents say that gives officers too much discretion and leads to racial profiling. Bratton helped bring crime down in los angeles and will help the city of oakland. Our News Reporter will have a live report with much more on the heated hearing last night in 30 minutes. The Council Approved another crimefighting measure to bring in outside help to oakland. All on the Council Approved to bring in the Alameda County sheriff deputy to patrol the streets, helping the Oakland Police with duties do two days a week. Oakland police opposed this but leaders Say Something has to be done about crime
I thought about my family and my animals. Flames forcing people out. Homes, power lines and pets in the line of fire. Why crews are hoping to make progress against the flames tonight. Good evening. Im ama dates. We start with developing news. Two major fires burning in the bay area tonight. In Sonoma County a brushfire ignited a pallet factory destroying several structures. And in Contra Costa County flames are forcing neighbors from their homes after a brushfire ignited in Mount Diablo State Park. Evacuations for everyone in the curry canyon area and an Evacuation Center set up at the Clayton Community center off clayton road. Lilian has the latest. Ama, it is a little tough to make out, but smoke is rising above the ridge line behind that ridge and the fire is very active. At last check 800 to a thousand acres have burned so far. The fire was unrelenting even as the sun went down. Firefighters battled the flames all afternoon. Crews were called about three miles south of clayton just
This . As you can see the fire is fairly actively burning and the winds are causing it to pickup. This is not unusual for this mountain this early in the morning. It is just showing the potential we have out here. There is a lot of unburned file and the mountain has not burned for many, many years. We have very hot temperatures in the last few days. We have very low humidity. All of those factors contribute to this. This site looks. Our apologies for Audio Program with amy hollyfield. We will go back to amy but, first, we go to pictures of what is going on. You can see the hotspots burning right there at 1,500 acres. When the sun comes up firefighters will try to do battle and only 10 percent containment so a tough battle head with todays weather. Mike had a good view of the fire driving in and you are describing how it wrapped around the south side. Walked outside and there was the on glow of the fire as it mid from the eastern side to the south side and it was spreading both ways, sp