Is a responsibility of maintaining the defensible spaces. Our clients are kind of a panic mode. For good reason. Dan brubaker is a professional landscaper saying there is a perfect storm for fire danger. Because of the drought there is more ladder fuels. Grasses are more dry. Winds more strong. In orinda, signs read conditions moderate with you they require a watchful eye. All it takes is someone flicking a cigarette out of a car window. These grasses can just burn up the hill. And its like early 90s. The Oakland Hills fire burned for hours. Taking with it more than 3,000 homes and claiming lives of more than two dozen people. Like many, thoughing there are things in common with neighbors views, a ideal location and a need to keep the home clear of debris, and anything that could be a potential fire hazard. We cut dry weeds all the time. Heat is on the mind of oakland fire officials. High dry brush is being targeted. And fire crews are helping residents. Make sure we have our defensibl
Skekted to be a threeday sample of summer in the bay area. Elevating temperatures throughout the region. Let turn to spencer christian. Spencer one more day of hot weather . Todays weather had sweltering aspect to it. Lets take a look at live doppler 7 hd. You can see sunny skies beginning to move on shore. Here is a look at highs we did have one record. Actually its a tie. There are santa cruz, 93. Its going to be a warm day tomorrow. Major changes are coming our way. When the weather gets warm and dry winds start blowing it elevates fire danger in the bay area. We know that were in for a long fire season this year because of the drought. Abc7 News Reporter nick smith is live from the Oakland Hills. Nick . I have to show you this view because that is what this is all about. Those who live here know there is a responsibility of maintaining the defensible spaces. Our clients are kind of a panic mode. For good reason. Dan brubaker is a professional landscaper saying there is a perfect st
They pulled whaup appears to be fuselage and perhaps a body as well. We cannot confirm that from shore. It looks again like its going quickly. Now, plan is to take that wreckage, whatever they retrieve from the waters to another location. Ntsb will review to find out what caused this collision. Vic, thank you very much. Airports here and across the west are a computer glitch caused all airports to close down. Its affecting flights at sfo. Were live with the problem creating system wide. Ama . Reporter dan, the ground staff has been lifted. That happened around 3 45 but flights going from here down to los angeles are delayed. The faa center experienced a technical issue affecting airports from Santa Barbara down to san diego. So any flights were placed on a stop until that issue was resolved. That affected a number of flights going to a variety of destinations. Were being told that has been lifted. There are delays on flights and one International Flight was diverted im told it will be
The Valley Head Town Council has scheduled a meeting on March 20 at 6 p.m. to discuss the 30-day suspension of the town’s fire chief, Dustin Burt.Mayor Michael Key, who