Before he died and were waiting now for a live update from officials so we can get some more information on exactly how he died because officials are not saying how he was injured. But they are remembering him as a beloved veteran of the department. This very trying time as jason was well liked department. And they fought their about it. Starting in 2007 working mostly its a supporting recently attending the fire academy. Graduating as a firefighter paramedic. Assigned to the busiest station in america station number 3. And that every one of san cortez leaves behind a wife and 2 children firefighters are expected to hold a procession later this afternoon from the hospital to the San Francisco medical Examiners Office and theyll be doing that in his honor with a large gathering. This is a developing story were working to get more details and kron fours teresa stasio is following it for us. Shell have the latest information later tonight on kron 4 news at 5 in the meantime you can always
About 30 minutes ago with the phone fighter fire. They plan to tourists and Fire Departments and then eventually make their way to the San Francisco Coroners Office in the meantime, this is what we know right now. Of this. Jason cortez was at a training facility. Over on 19th and fulsome. All of a sudden there was some kind of accident he was rushed to the hospital where a spokesperson for the spokesperson for the Department Said that he died of his injuries. They are not elaborating right now on all that happened. Now protests have been with the Department Since 2007 he was a firefighter and paramedic he was stationed in the tenderloin Officials Say that he was a friend and all an advocate for Public Safety he has a husband he has 2 children. He was also the son of a retired San Francisco firefighter. Here is a Department Spokesperson with more. Very trying time as jason was well liked department. Jason is not only a. A fellow firefighter paramedics hes a friend. All out of kits publi
Good news containment is up to 62 . Crews expect to fully contain the fire by the 20th of this month. The glass fire has destroyed more than 600 homes and still threatens more than 13,000 structures. Many people like the ole has family there still just picking up the pieces and as kron fours taylor sackey tells us now the family still has not been able to return to their home to actually see the destruction for themselves, but. They say they hope to salvage whatever Little Things they can. The only his family lived in this Deer Park Community for 40 years for their kids its the place where they grew up in shared many memories, right now im on their property standing in one of the 2 homes. This is the smaller one in can see here behind me this fire just completely tore through the area. Now only charred appliances are Still Standing that moment there that sick to your stomach, youre so scared. Yeah. And theres like one spotted fire and then there was 3 and suddenly there was just the wa
Nestle maybe a little bit better but you need to get out there early because it has not recovered from those crashes so 13 minutes off to one oh one. We havent had any trouble spots so far into San Francisco very quiet on the bay bridge, but its stacked up from the bottom of the maze so be prepared for that the golden gate us trouble free no problems here north or south into or out of San Francisco, really the only big problem that im tracking is in the north bay and its impacting traffic trying to get to the east bay from the north bay to the east bay south 6 ad and industrial we have an overturned big rig thats been there for a couple of hours so your 2 left lanes blocked. Youre back up about 5 miles a lot of folks are trying to access the benicia bridge and theyre stuck in this back up so dont even bother take 80 west and use the kirk in a subset of the benicia i have more slow downs coming up in a bit back to you. Thank you very much robin at 8 oh one lets get to some breaking news
Gray skies, some cloudy skies to start across the bay and its going to stay that way for a bit longer today like yesterday was but you will notice gradually clearing later on as for 08 00am do expect some visibility impacts right in the midst your morning commute in some spots in the north bay and the east bay hills after them waving goodbye to the fog and cloud cover inland. Well its going to be pretty stubborn right along the coastline. Now we have seen moderate to even pour air quality filtering back in across the bay area. Thats why were starting this morning off to we are going to be seeing air quality impacts likely even as we do enjoy this cool down so keep that in mind if you do have respiratory conditions. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with oakland at 62 alameda and hayward each in the low 60s as well few 50s towards the coast and up in the north bay avoiding the 40 so far although we do have a few low 50s checking in on the map this morning. So cool and cloudy sta