East foothills of san jose. Its where we find Sandra Osborne where a fire got a little too close to home. Its still so dark out here its a little hard to see. Behind me the grass has completely been burned away. Youre seeing charred marks on the side of the foothills. Fire crews were able to get out and get the fire contained. This has been an ongoing problem out here. The high heat is not helping. San Jose Fire Department responded to reports of a car fire on sierra road east into the hills from piedmont. The fire spread and was contained to 3 acres of brush fire. While they believe there was no foul play, neighbors are worried at multiple fires in the area. That was going on, and somebody had lit a fire on our ridge where all the horses are. And i guess this one happened over here last night where around 3 00 in the morning, god knows what happened. Somebody might have lit a cigarette or whatever. They believe a car fire sparked all of this. Fire crews have tips for keeping your home
Start making repairs to Morgan Territory road near clayton. A stretch of the road was washed away during a february landslide. Its a mile south of marsh creek road. A detour has been set up for locals only. The heat and fire led to a close call in san jose when a brush fire erupted a mile from a residential neighborhood over the weekend. Sandra osborne is there live. And after a string of recent brush fires, people in the area must be nervous. Reporter good morning to you, kenny. And there are so many signs reminding neighbors of what happened here just yesterday. We can see signs that the high fire danger, you can see the charred bits where a car pulled off and caught fire and the grass surrounding it. And its prizing that it didnt spread faster. Fire crews were able to get it under control quickly. And were surrounded by dry vegetation with high fire danger. And last week a fire in san jose burned a home to the ground. The cause of the fire is under investigation. But yesterdays fire
Thoughts and prayers for our friends and everyones favorite princess. You can leave your comments on the story as well, its pinned to the top of the nbc by a area page. And nightly news will have continuing coverage of the health scare for fisher. Fans across the globe showing their support for her. The bay area getting a good holiday soaking. A strong storm brought a significant amount of rain today. Lets begin with our chief meteorologist. Jeff, wheres the storm heading now . Right now the strongest portion of the storm system is moving towards the south in the Central Valley near los angeles but we still have some instability back behind the main branch and that could bring us hitandmiss showers as we head throughout tonight. Rainfall totals impressive from about 4 00 to 8 00 a. M. We pick up the bulk of the rainfall that tallied up to onetenth of an inch. Eighttenths of an inch in walnut creek. A half inch in san jose and one inch for the santa cruz mountains. On the Doppler Radar
Bear ground. They were in tshirts with farmer tans. This is good. This is the very good thing and this is what we have been waiting on for the past four years several days of rain in the forecast. The heaviest precipitation around novato area making tracks towards vallejo pushing out of petaluma look at the 560 08, 6 08 580, 608 corridor. We have some heavy to light precipitation now enterearth santa clara valley. Sant jose a Little Pocket over the willow glen area and around peninsula the san mateo bridge boy, moderate rainfall there as in woodside heading into San Francisco you have the cluster of activity in the form of moderate rain just down third into evans avenue. Mission district you hear the rain drops on the rope top and all the activity is the tail end of the system that worked its way in yesterday but now its happening and its subtropical moisture and we will get the big fat rain drops and warm mild conditions. We are 24 hours ago it was 32 degrees and this is very indicati
Different tips here in the studio, exchanging ideas, and carol and i really liked your suggestion. You want to make sure that you have gas in your vehicle, ready to go, so if you do need to go somewhere, that you have that handy. And we have all these additional tips, things you may want to keep in your emergency kit on prepare nor cal. Its a section of our website. Weve made it very easy. Its on our home page, ab abc7news. Com. Back to you. Thanks, jess. All right, if you dont need to be outside, for goodness sakes, stay indoors. Dont chance it. Yeah. But if you do have to get out and about, well, we want to check in with amy hollyfield. Shes been in the north bay all morning long. And its tapered off some, then its been heavy, and whats happening right now, amy . Reporter carolyn, we have experienced exactly what mike was talking about it comes fast and furious, then it eases up. You probably saw me 30 minutes ago getting pounded with lots of wind and heavy rain. We arent experiencin