Reporter will be talking to residents about this coming up at kron 4 news at 6 creek reporting live in vallejo kron 4 news. Pam right now firefighters are on the scene of a threealarm fire. Reporter and a loss swift ave. North of the San Francisco airport. Right behind me there is a storage unit where the fire started at 2 00 this afternoon to it is extending to threealarm but the third alarm remained the staging and did not make it to the fire. It started inside the stores unit. The score ahead and take a look at the scenery. This is something to it you would see at a mall. This tough call on fire and burned pretty much anything inside with a total loss. You have the three city outside of the building right now. Everything in the interior is to strike. There are a lot of firefighters came here on the same trick very heavy response to the area but very little external damage to what was damage inside of the businesses nearby. No external damage to them as well. Year in south San Franci
Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live at the scene in darby tonight. Chris . Reporter lucy, the fire has been put out. Its been placed under control. Fire crews still remain here in Darby Township. Unfortunately word trickling down through this night in it community a neighborhood institution was the vick of this fatal fire. His name has got officially been released but neighbors here know who he is. An elderly man we are told the body of that man was found in his cluttered basement less than an hour ago. Heard the loud boom. Reporter neighbors on jackson street in Darby Township heard the explosion just after 7 00 oclock and quickly learned which house on the block was burning. She just said, mommy, mommy theres a fire. I went outside and she said mommy its mr. Dukes house. He watched me while i agreed up. He was just like my god dad. Reporter firefighters arrived to the home engulfed in flames. Its believed gas was at least partially responsible for the fire. So bad at one point 10 homes we
To the mother of a local firefighter who is also faceing huge obstacles. Good evening im dawn timmeney. Im joyce evans. The house seemed to collapse just as the fire was finally knock down. Fox 29s brad sattin is live near the scene tonight. Brad, you have the very latest on this story. Reporter joyce nothing but hardship for the last few years for this family. Take look. The fire is now out behind us. In fact just a huge pile of rubble. Theres a fence that was put up over the course of the last couple of hours. But really this is turned into a personal story for the 46 firefighter it took on the scene here today. They have been very supportive of one of their own and had to again today. With up to 40 miles an hour winds this home on stow road never stood a chance. What started as a rubbish fire outside quickly took over the home and within minutes it all came down. We had early collapse of the roof into the second floor then shortly thereafter the second floor into the first floor. Re
Institution was the vick of this fatal fire. His name has got officially been released but neighbors here know who he is. An elderly man we are told the body of that man was found in his cluttered basement less than an hour ago. Heard the loud boom. Reporter neighbors on jackson street in Darby Township heard the explosion just after 7 00 oclock and quickly learned which house on the block was burning. She just said, mommy, mommy theres a fire. I went outside and she said mommy its mr. Dukes house. He watched me while i agreed up. He was just like my god dad. Reporter firefighters arrived to the home engulfed in flames. Its believed gas was at least partially responsible for the fire. So bad at one point 10 homes were evacuated and firefighters had to be pushed back. Heavy smoke heavy flames. Um it was to the point where we had to leave the structure because of the heavy intense flames. Reporter neighbors say the man they know as mr. Duke was a scrap metal collector. Outside the home w
Lock themselves down. They told us on the news to stay inside and thats what i did did. I watched it on tv. A former volunteer firefighter identified as 25 year old plaguer done was holding four firefighters hostage in the basement. Previously before our arrival before we received the call it did fire one shot into the wall into the firehouse. No other shots fired. Investigators say jordan had just been fired last night after a longrunning dispute with fire officials and showed up today distraught. Shocking surprising. Nothing like this happens around here. Its a quiet community. Swath teams rushed through an open door and cleared first floor to stage no negotiations. Police say one hostage was freed shortly before they got there. He released the last three and gave up. We had a short conversation with one of the victims. This mans mother says she saw the whole thing unfold on live tv. Thats when i was like, wait a minute. I raised up and said, oh, ply god, thats the place where my wor