Arrived quickly, they had a very Quick Response to this fire. Thats why the fire was so bad. Now, many questions remain to be answered. There will be some test burns conducted by the a. T. F. There will be some reconstructions of the home. But what we are told is that a Christmas Tree this big, this old, would burst into huge flames in a matter of just seconds. The fire officials tell us today that they believe that from the outset when there was some sort of a spark that touched off the fire until the point when it became unsurvivorable was a matter of perhaps just two minutes. In Millersville Brad Bell abc 7 news. Just so tragic. Brad, thank you. And one more note here the university of marylands James Clark School of engineering recently conducted a study on Christmas Tree fires. And it included some video right here. They determined that fires involving Christmas Trees are three to four times as deadly as a typical house fire. Thats because its typical six can be completely engulfe
Reporter heres what we got on Storm Tracker 6 live double scan, there also the blue in the radars out of the philadelphia on to the north and west. This is where you get sleet and rain. In the i95 corridor theres sleet at times it could be cool enough at the surface where some of the rain is freezing up on surfaces and giving you the mix of icy sheen on the roadway. The big issue is in the northern and western suburbs. As we go through the morning well see the blue line push farther and farther to the north and early this afternoon well change over to rain up to the north. We have a Winter Weather advisory this is in effect in all the counties highlighted in purple this morning. In some cases it wont expire until 1 00 p. M. 10 00, and 1 00 p. M. The 10 expiration is around i95 and new jersey and delaware, but in these areas of northern bucks, month montco and chester youre going to be stuck with the freezing rain and sleet. The i95 corridor and points south generally speaking youll be
Well not get the bulls eye. Storm tracker 6 double scan showing most of our region just dealing with light snow right now. However we do have a pocket of some heavier snow in parts of lancaster and Chester County. You can see that area of purple right north of route 41. Thats an area of some steadier heavier snow between route 30 and route 10 and its just kind of sitting there. This system will really be getting cranked up in the overnight hours and thats when well see the potential for the heavy accumulating snow. That being said, i want to share this photo that was tweeted to me from marisa from lancaster, pennsylvania. This is route 30 taking taken about a half hour ago. You can see how Road Conditions are going downhill. So for this evening as we get the snow showers, you do want to be careful but between about 9 oclock and 10 oclock, now until 10 oclock tonight were looking at for the most part light snow showers. Be careful for some slick spots and especially the bridges and the
Listened to gospel music. A man she worked with killed her her. Why investigators say he did it in a live report just ahead. But first the storm thats been slamming the midwest for several hours now is almost here. Highways in nebraska are covered with snow and accidents. People are being told to stay off the roads. Good evening im iain page. Im lucy noland. We could be in for tough driving weather tonight. Well have live team coverage. Dave kinchen out on the scene well start with caitlin roth. How bad will it be caitlin. Were already seeing reports of snow covered roads across much of our northwestern counties this is two hours ago. Berks county upper bucks county into the Lehigh Valley and the poconos and i would bet were seeing more of that evening further southward as the snow starts to fill in. Weve seen things play out as expected so far snow mainly north and west of 95. Rape showers moving into parts of delaware and south jersey but a nice little burst of snow there in northern
Its scary because im a woman and theres a lot ed kids around here employs are scared to go to their car at night. Scott very Little Details right now. I reached out to the Oakland Police department that they have not responded. Vicki a house fire in santa rosa is leaving eight people displaced tonight. One of those eight people has a new roof over his head. At the Sonoma County jail. Kron fours dan rubin is joining us live from the home that burned down and more on the suspicious fire. Dan . Dan this is actual the room where the fire investigators started the whole fire. Firefighters got here within five minutes. The fire spread very quickly. Im going to take this off the tripod here and give you look around. You can see the complete destruction. It started in this room then spread to this kitchen area where you can see it does not resemble a kitchen anymore. We have a lot of damage here, with eight people displaced. The suspect is Samuel Alvarez is behind bars right now. I did get a c