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Sot the smoke could you smell it . Oh, yea. It was pretty strong. I just live about a block from here and i can smell it. The flames so hot, it partly melted the side of this car parked in the driveway. Sot the damage to the interior of the structure is extensive, uh, there was nobody home at the time and there was nobody injured, but there was damage to the units on either side of the units you see behind me. Robert marshall with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection distict says despite no one being home at the time, the cause of the fire isnt considered suspicous, but is still under investigation. The bigger concern he says is the toll recent fires are taking on his crews, which are already shortstaffed. Sot this is the fourth fire in 24 ours that weve had and thats unusual, even for us actually, uh, it, its only gonna get worse from here. Crews from Contra Costa County helped knock down a 5alarm fire near fairfield friday, and marshall says if multiple fires continue to pop up in
Taken to hospital. Lightning strikes do happen here we do have a man who was struck in an oilfield near fresno. It does happen but very rare. Firefighters continue to battle a wildfire that has destroyed ten homes and forced hundreds of evacuations in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Officials say the sand fire has burned about 3,800 acres in amador and el dorado counties since friday. About 500 homes have been evacuated near plymouth in amador countys winegrowing region. A calfire Spokesman Says the fire could continue to grow this evening. As firefighters brace for high wind and triple digit heat. We have a quick round of heavy showers and thunderstorms making for the injuries and fatalities earlier. We even had a few showers here in the bay area earlier this morning. Around sunrise. Just a trace amounts of rain, meaning less than one onehundredth of an inch. Temperatures actually got pretty hot today if, especially in and. For 100 degrees in antioch. There will be a chance of showers la
I asked a number of local hikers who were turned away upon seeing the trail closed if they had ever seen a Mountain Lion here. The officials here echoed the same sentiment but who had never heard or seen such a thing. Basically the entire senate cruz mountains are a very very safe area. We have thousands of joggers come to the area. The Mountain Lion conflicts are extremely rare. People are safe general public is safe. Usually the mound lines will run from new. Theyre still looking for this Mountain Lion. Theyre going to start again in the morning. You might want hold off from these trails tonight or tomorrow morning. We have now officially hold from hospitaler hospitals spokesperson. They say the boy is doing fine. A 6 year old autistic boy is home safe. After he went missing yesterday morning. San jose police say Sergio Zepeda was found just after 4 a m. They say a man living in a homeless encampment called to report a child had stumbled into the people at the encampment gave the boy
Festive atmosphere. They are going to win. And you will see that. I just got a kids. It the crazy thing, but its all about mexico. So we have mexico taking on 12 ranked chile, and we are bringing that out tonight at 11. Certainly traffic and turf, unconcerned there. The search continues for a missing autistic boy in san jose who said hasnt been seen since early this morning. Sergio zepeda has been missing going on 11 hours now. The San Jose Police department in the command center where we been hoping to hear some good news, but it looks like we have his photograph and San Jose Police that his mother last saw him this morning around 9 00 and he was reported around two hours later. And he was last seen inside his home. His mother augustina and her boyfriend think he got out on his own by leaving through the garage. The san jose search and rescue has been out looking for the boy since this morning with search dogs, but with no luck. It was is there, so obviously hes six years old, 4foot t