Jonathan mccall the scene is unfolding tonight in the area of kelloggs street in cornelia street in sassoon city. We do know that homes have been burned, but we do not know right now just exactly how many homes have been burned right now. This is a residential area and theres also a large area potentially dry vegetation a large grassy area people are now being asked to stay away from the south of cornelia road right now we do know that Crystal Middle School has been designated as an Evacuation Center for people in that area. Cal fire and vallejo fire crews are also helping soon city fire crews. Battle this fire. Once again this fire continuing to burn out of control. We are working to gather more from crews there on the scene hoping to get a getting contact with the fire chief there is a sin city in the next 10 minutes or so as soon as we are able to get to him get more information well bring it to you live right here on the kron 4. And across the hour actually lets just stay right her
End of the day right now even though you dont see visible flames they still have their hands full. You can see up on the hillside, this was a new development that took place about a minute ago we saw them come over the ridge line and look at that theyre coming down so looks like a change. Ive shifts so more firefighters are being thrown at this. This is called the call wein fire because its on colleen drive and blossom avenue and then well zoom off in the distance look at the hillside now that the sun is up you can clearly see the damage from this fire look at that has charred on the side about 90 acres burned. We should get new containment numbers very shortly as they usually update at around 7 oclock in the morning. Let me show you video this fire happened late last night this is a very populated area and it quickly spread through the very dry terrain we havent seen rain in a long time so it didnt take very long for this fire to spread. Why they think this was arson so quickly theyre
Distance of the fire. And thats why the firefighters actually had to evacuate many of the homes last night just in case that fire jumped the fire line the embers carried over and then could possibly set this neighborhood on fire. Fortunately that was not the case the people were allowed to return to their homes in the overnight hours as far as the cause of the fire didnt take them very long to figure that out at least one person was arrested possibly many more by the end of today as far as the fire got out of hand really quickly. Its an area thats hard to ach you cant drive your fire trucks up there so they have hoses going along the ridge line and when that was not enough to actually took to the air and drop fire retardant down to the flames and the people in the neighborhood they are thankful that the firefighters quickly pounced on the flames because this area because its so dry and the home so close that this neighborhood give the easily been something that we saw in santa rosa whe
morning. it is april 15th. i m victor blackwell. merrill walker. thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. um how s it going? move here . you know what i have in my mind right now is when we re getting that invite to your place once your bar is all built out, is being built out. the bottles have not yet arrived from storage. but it s coming. it s coming. haven t arrived yet. no invitation just come and look at the shelves. okay it s coming. sure i m sure the shelves are beautiful. here s what we re watching this morning. this is not just about taking home documents. a 21 year old air man charged in connection with the leak of classified documents appeared in front of a federal judge friday . what we re learning about him and the questions being raised about who should have access to classified information. president biden is weighing in on the supreme court s decision to temporarily extend access to an abortion drug while it considers the case the next steps in
Also, utility worker in San Francisco was killed while on the job today, under several feet of dirt and concrete. The investigation tonight what went wrong. When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching 4 news. Thanks for joining us tonight on kron. 4 news at 10, everybody. Im grant lotus Vicki Liviakis. Our top story tonight. Should oakland get theyre all police chief back . Well, that was the main question asked at tonights town hall. It was hosted by the Oakland Police commission. They are considering whether or not to recommend the mayor reinstate lauren armstrong. And as kron 4 Sarah Stinson reports tonight, dozens of people attended to share their opinions. People came to the Oakland Police Commission Meeting and they overwhelmingly supported former chief Leronne Armstrong. Very few people got up speaking against him being reinstated. Not and weve been we had 5 public forms. Weve heard from 350 people before even tonight when they said when we asked what he