Firebreaks out on yerba buena eye land island giving firefighters a challenge and making a mess for drivers. The fire started before 8 00 tonight near the bay bridge. Sergio is live with the latest. Sergio . Right now the good news is that the fire teams have a pretty good handle on the flames. As you mentioned it did create quite the traffic snarl and it continues to be the biggest problem. You can see the lower level of the bay bridge, traffic is pretty slow moving, but the fire teams got a handle on the flames here in the last hour. Now this was a fire that you first reported at 8 00 this evening. It quickly went up the side of yes, sir bough buena Yerba Buena Island. There was lots of communication equipment at the top of the hill. Fire commanders dispatched a boat that attacked from the bay level and despite some of the traffic snarl the fire trucks were able to get over the bay bridge from San Francisco to back up some of the crews that were already here. Right now the fire is la
It was the most intense accident i have ever seen. A wrong way driver on 101 collides with a taxi killing one man and seriously injuring several others. Good evening. Im ama dates. Police arrested 24yearold zachary katz under suspicion of driving under the influence. Tonight katz and several others remain hospitalized. Lisa amin gulezian joins us with the latest. Lisa . Ama, three people involved in this mornings crash are here at San Francisco General Hospital. One was a passenger in that cab that you mentioned. The other two are in serious condition. One of them is the driver of the taxi, and the other is the man believed to have caused this entire thing. He left his wife at home in emeryville this morning and got to his taxicab. He had no idea a few hours later he would be at San Francisco General Hospital. Suffering from two broken legs and a hip, back and neck injury. He was driving to sfo with two people in the backseat when police say the stan stored mba student drove the wrong
Conditions coastside, even warm. And inland we are looking at mostly cool numbers. Big changes coming up. Carolyn. We begin with breaking news out of san jose where firefighters have just put out a fire in a car that was split in half. It happened at blossom hill road and wind fielder boulevard near the mall. So word on how the car was split in two or if there were injuries. We will continue to follow the story and by you updates as we become available. A stanford student faces manslaughter and dui charges after driving the wrong way down 101 this weekend and slamming head on into a taxi cab. The predawn collision south of Candlestick Park caused a pileup that shut down 101 for three hours yesterday. The taxi was carrying two passengers to sfo. One was thrown into traffic lanes. At least one was completely ejected at the vehicle. He died at the seen. He was not seatbelted in. He was heading to the airport for a flies to his home in puerto rico. Another passenger and the driver taxicab
Who answered the phone told me they have evacuated about ten people who were in the rooms facing the freeway right there next to where the tanker is. Firefighters tell us they are testing the air and the leak and the air around that with some air monitors. They are describing the leak as a small one. Like i mentioned there is a small leak, not enough for us to notice. We know the propane is odorized. Had there been a larger leak, we would have an order as well as other signs we were able to be able to see with our monitors. We have up in of those. This is just a precaution. Reporter the truck was carrying two tank a total of 9,000 gal lops of propane. They are not sure how much was in the tank that flipped over and is leaking. So only one of the two actually landed on its side and has that small leak happening right now. They have closed the carlton boulevard exit ramps in both direction, mainly so they can have their emergency crews staging here in this area and have some room and not
Burning grass and brush, no structures are involved. S in individual yoe we recorded earlier. The Fire Department has closed the two right lanes on the low are beck of the bridge to set up hoess to hit the fire from the bij. Traffic is a mess. This is what traffic on the San Francisco sky way approaching the lower deck looks like. San francisco fire trucks are having a tough time too getting to the blaze. So theyre letting both of the Fire Departments battle boats battling them from blaze. The crews are busy working the more active one right now. What are you seeing there on the island . Reporter we apologize for that. We did have him on the line. Perhaps we will be able to get him back in just a few moments. Again, this is a live look of the burning. Well bring you more on that throughout the new cast. Good evening. We have another fire to tell you about. A blaze was snuffed out above larkspur, it broke out near ma reap in a visitor boulevard. Home own hers with a bit anxious when the