Neighbors described this rodeo fire that broke out near highway 80 incoming skyway just before 2 oclock monday afternoon. What began as 2 small fires quickly merged into one in burned 230 acres because of strong winds wind at least one of the fires to get away from us and it burned past fortunately. They burn past all the petrochemical infrastructure. You can see behind me and also thankfully burn past a quite a few houses in north circular is. And headed out into the wilderness area thats bounded by interstate 80 on this side. Coming skyway to the north and highway 4 to the south and to the east as steve hill with Contra Costa County fire explains the wind fueled this fire but also push it away from homes nearby. Neighbors off california street say they could see the smoke and flames from their backyards. I saw the live this hour that some houses are probably getting like a 100 yards out a fire. So there are some neighborhoods neighbors back as were worried about it thankfully. No one
Are there. An urgent plea from police after a 6 yearold boy is killed on july 4th what we know about the investigation tonight good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news today. We have a team of reporters following these fires across the bay area we begin in the east bay where a fire burned close to homes in rodeo and thats where we have kron 4 status aqi joining us live with the very latest on that fire taylor. Welcome though wind is still picking up a little bit here today, the wind played a huge role and how this fire behaved and where it moved today earlier it started out as 2 smaller fires, but ultimately merge into one as the winds picked up now thankfully though the one good thing about the wind is that it pushed the fire away from homes, nearby and instead pushed the fire into the wilderness area you see here behind me. Now you can see that that areas no longer smoking like it was just hours ago. If you take a look at this video from e
Backseat. Do we know, is there Department Policy on that at all . From the backseat of a moving vehicle at that. I did ask the chief that very question. Is this policy, is it appropriate. He did not quite answer he said there is multiple investigations going on, that there are rules that govern when a Police Officer can discharge his firearm and that he was not going to weigh in. I can tell you that is what the victims family wants to know, was that appropriate policy and if not, will that officer be held accountable . Afterwards he asked did he point a gun at us, all right, joe, thanks for the update. San Francisco Health officials have unveiled a preliminary School Reopening plan, if conditions allow for a safe return to the classroom. The Health Department outlined the practices needed to save the resume in person instructions. Some guidelines include using masks during school. Practicing social distancing, frequent handwashing, keeping students in small cohorts and staggering sched
School year should not bring a return to the classroom. The experience i had with my daughter, she did not do good with distancelearning provides funded okay, but my daughter needs to be in the classroom with the teachers. But if its not safe. So many questions for parents, teachers and students. How should these decisions be made . Piece by piece, district by district, we are going to fail. We are providing the flexibility based upon local conditions. The governor is sticking with his mantra of local control and that means the local district is trying to figure this all out right now. I think it is pretty obvious thheir ol winot lo the same when itts backinto session. Marcus walton is with west contra costa unified, he says one central element of their planning is being ready to ditch plan a. The Health Experts are telling us there will be a second wave and we have to expect that if the second wave, when and if the second wave hits that everyone will be again doing remote learning. Th
All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get some news this morning in the south bay, the cruise fires burned 5400 acres in Santa Clara County. Cal fire says its now about 20 contained and evacuations are still in place this morning. And the fire has destroyed 2 buildings and one person was hurt kron fours dan thorn has more. Flames chewing through thousands of acres as firefighters battled the crews fire. The dry brush crackling for a second day as the wildfire threatened homes and forced evacuations along kenyada road for this man thankfully his rural ranch home was spared. I was relieved, i was i was only able to make it up last night and i was able to tell couple the neighbors that there are places where intact. The house and the horses were protected from the ground and from the air fire retardant dropped from above even covered some of his animals by horses got red said i have read horses, so thats thats an experience because the flames spread so quickly, hundreds of firefighters from a