Clevelands own fox 8 news. The Cleveland Fire Department hard at work today, battlingba several fires across the city. Here you can see crews on the scene of a home on east 57th street. Early this morning, a different place on east 130 third. Good evening everyone, im jennifer jordan. And im bill j sheil. And a sad story here, not everyone made it out life in either of those fires. Fox eights Brittney Harris has more on the investigations. I heard the sirens and they stopped right in front of the house. I went to my front door and looked at what was happening. I saw some firefighters pull out itsl time to get out of here. Eric gergotz is anxious to get back into his house here at east 57th in cleveland. He was told her to her his neighbors home caught fire to evacuate. It happened sometime around noon on saturday. He says they havent heard very much, bute they do know apassed away. Its real bad over here. The streets are blocked off and the fire keeps going. It wont stop. Sue lefkowski
learned today she was a firefighter. Brandon Simmons has the latest on the investigation. brandon, good evening to you. good evening. Tonya Johnson was an veteran firefighter. she was crossing six lanes of traffic. today her coworkers and family trying to understand happened. it was 4 00 p. M. yesterday when 911 calls came into dispatch. reports of a woman attempting to cross over re being struck by a vehicle. the woman identified as 43year old Tonya Johnson was a veteran they see a lot of tragedy and being paramedics, the same. but when Something Like this brings home how frail life is. police say johnson got in a verbal argument with her newly wed husband when they stopped on the side of the he car and walked across the southbound lanes, struck as she attempted to cross the long time friends describe how wonderful of a person she was. her being an American Woman in a male dominated industry at the fire was beloved and respected. thats all you need to know about her. he met with tonya
Bone monoxide poisoning. Brian the victims spent the night in the hospitals. Thanks for joining us at 6 00. Im brian duffy. First, lets get a check on the forecast. Meteorologist sam roberts is in the First Alert Weather Center to tell us that its not as bad as it was yesterday. Samantha not at all. There is a little snow out there. But its not wide sprez or hef as this time yesterday morning, so even though you may see a few flakes flying, i dont think it will have big impacts on your drive at all. Its 27 right now in the city of cleveland. Youre looking live over 480. You can see that the roads look good from this vantage point, although theres light snow out there. Here it is on the radar. Its all moving east. Akron, canton, dover is dry. Soon well be dry in cleveland, and it will all be out to the east. Here it is now, lake county, Summit County and ashtabula. Some steadier snow around euclid, wickliffe and willoughby. This extending down to the south to stark county, portage and b
Surprised that someone was shot here. I dont understand what would drive someone to do that, but its a shame. Reporter they issued an alert to their Police Department nationwide to be on the lookout for that volkswagen jetta. In the marin county area, fox 2 news. A new audit finds that they are having trouble filling vacancies in the department. That the rate is at the all time high of 21 . We talked to the city leaders about their solution already in the works in a story new at 6 00. Long gone are the days of wanting to be the San Jose Police officer as the new audit would find the department that they had 50 vacancies to fill with nearly quadrupling the amount. That last Years Academy with nearly 1,900 applicants. Only 16 were hired. One would live in san jose. Theres got to be more residence than that, who they are willing and able to be San Jose Police officers. Reporter the auditor says that the problem lies in the department recruiting efforts, knowing that despite that 250,000 a
Search for a wide area looking for clues. The dogs are specially trained in the explosives. They hope that they would find possibly a gun or guns that might have been used in this homicide for the last night. Reporter the buddy of a hiker was discover the body of a hiker was discovered near a popular hiking area in fairfax. He had been shot to death. His dog was also shot. He was in the company sadly of his own dog who was still tied to his hand with a leash. Reporter sources have identified the hiker as 67year old steve carter, a wellknown concert teacher and relationship therapist. We spoke to one relative by phone. Did he encounter someone, someone he knew . He knew, we dont know. Reporter they issued an alert to look out for a 2003 silver volkswagen hatchback similar to this one belonging to carters wife. They believe that it was stolen with the license plate 6ppg662. The trail will be closed until the search is done. Those who bike and hike in the area say they are surprised that