They consider both of these fire suspicious but too soon to know whether or not it was arson. Here in brentwood you can see what is left of this shall of the shell of the pickup truck. The neighbor said that fire happened around 3 30 am and the fire spread from the truck to the garage. The next door neighbor of the family happened to be getting ready for work at 3 am and saw the flames and came out to wake up the family. I came out in saw the car on fire so i called 911. I went and knocked on the door and told him to come outside and get the kids out. Reporter the victim got out safely and his two young kids were sleeping directly over the garage it was upsetting to think what couldve happened had it not been for the neighbor. We could all be in the hospital or worse, its just as simple as that. I am frustrated and i dont understand how anyone could choose to do that. Reporter investigators received a copy of the Surveillance Video from the neighbor and at 3 07 am you can see the times
If we want to flip over to our graphics here i have an update as far as cal train riders are concerned sunnyvale station is closed. The earliest it will reopen is about 12 30 this afternoon. Earn this saying they were saying that three hours would be the minimum on the time. So we are halfway through that at this point. They are not providing a bus bridge, but vta is assisting. The rest of the trains are singletracking past sunnyvale station. So this is going to be continuing, hopefully not too far into the afternoon commute. Hopefully we get that 12 30 final frame where we get that open. We have another issue, this in the mission bay area. This was a car that was taking a turn way too fast, popped up on the muni station there, that barrier, that fire hydrant. That car has been removed. This is right near at t park. It did resume normal service about an hour ago. So things are returning to normal in the Mission Bay Neighborhood as well. Back to you. Thank you for joining us. Im matt ke
Troubling for menlo parks fire chief. Reporter construction crews continue to work today on the massive steel frame set to be facebooks building 21. The site cal osha is now investigating after a worker plummeted 15 feet from the fourth floor. According to the menlo park fire department, the worker fell from the fourth floor to the third floor tuesday when a piece of steel he stepped on dislodged. In a statement, the fire chief said he was rushed to stanford Hospitals Trauma Center where he is recovering. This isnt the first time firefighters had to rush to this construction site. Back in april, two workers were 40 feet high when their steel beam under them dropped. Luckily their safety harnesses saved them. The fire chief says, thats not only very unusual but it deeply concerns me. We reached out to the contractor and to facebook. The companies have not responded to our requests for comment. In menlo park, jessica flores, kpix 5. Firefighters doused debris after a homeless encampment
Washington retiring in 2014. She previously served five years as chief of the spokane Washington Police department. Oakland has been without a chief now since june when sean wenz resigned in the wide ranging Sexual Exploitation scandal involving a teenager. At that time mayor libby schaaf ruled out what she called a toxic culture under the department, reaching out to several officials for more information where one source is telling us the Police Command staff was notified earlier today to expect an announcement tomorrow, but they were not told the name of the new chief. Now to the weather weve seen heavy rain in the bay area all day long. Thats triggering concerns about flooding. 1. 63 inches in the past 24 hours. For theres been strong winds out there as well causing trees to fall and sparking the Power Outages. In the sierra theres a winter storm warning anyfect right now with up to five feet of new in effect right now with up to five feet of new snow. We have reporters out in the e
Reporter the wise for a light rain you see the heavy pockets pushing and as you go through the Morning Saturday it is heavy rain ride over Oakland San Francisco richmond continues through saturday a list of an illiterate as we go to the afternoon hours and as you go to the evening hours saturday night and sunday some of the heaviest rain will get here we are attracting heavy rain showers heading into sundays as well. Pam m there are major flooding concerns the problem weve seen before. Reporter and his death blood may strike again on top of the flood the champagne salon supper tens of thousand dollars in water damage and this 2 in. Of rain expected saturday and 3 in. Sunday. Steve it is not too late to grasp some lastminute supplies for staying safe during the big storm the classic things like stay inside a possible do not drive through standing water but he also had this advice. Grant l candles another piece of advice second vantage of the free sandbag since not only could help keep w