Their way onto city streets for march people want to stress that they want change but their call is a peaceful one kron fours dan thorn reports. The families and civil Rights Groups makes its way past the fox theater in oakland the peaceful protest for victims of Police Brutality is one of many taking place across the bay area and the country you know most biggest stand up and show out that this was going to take for the government all political people in choice to Pay Attention thursdays gathering began at city hall the coalitions by any means necessary and east bay black lives matter rally for equality and defending affirmative action very few driven lot of passion, peoples voices, people were encouraged to make signs many raising highs protesters took their message from franca gala plaza to the streets change at the core of the conversation you are safe. Seeing such a diverse crowd was encouraging for many. The expectation is for the support to grow and remain peaceful you see said
Before the days over right now the wildfire continues to burn we dont see the huge flames that we saw in the overnight hours but now that the sun is up you can clearly see what it did to this community you can see some of the firefighters right there on the hillside. It has burned so far about 90 acres, firefighters are on the scene here. Its such a remote area that you can see the hose has to go along this ridgeline here just to get to the firefighters and at one point they actually had to take to the air and drop retardant down because he was not obviously an area you drive to to access a fire. Hydrant let me show you video of whats called the colleen fire. It started late last night and its right next to thousands of homes in this community that at one point they actually had to evacuate the people just out of fear that the fire could jumped the fire line and spread throughout this neighborhood. Fortunately theyve been able to get the upper hand on the fire and the people were told
End of the day right now even though you dont see visible flames they still have their hands full. You can see up on the hillside, this was a new development that took place about a minute ago we saw them come over the ridge line and look at that theyre coming down so looks like a change. Ive shifts so more firefighters are being thrown at this. This is called the call wein fire because its on colleen drive and blossom avenue and then well zoom off in the distance look at the hillside now that the sun is up you can clearly see the damage from this fire look at that has charred on the side about 90 acres burned. We should get new containment numbers very shortly as they usually update at around 7 oclock in the morning. Let me show you video this fire happened late last night this is a very populated area and it quickly spread through the very dry terrain we havent seen rain in a long time so it didnt take very long for this fire to spread. Why they think this was arson so quickly theyre
People who are working at this time they came home and saw their hillside on fire. Its an area that they could not drive to the fire truck so actually they had to go up in the air at one point the drop fire retardant down. They also had to make sure that a lot of people stayed on the hillside in the overnight hours just to make sure that it did not spread to the area but they were so fearful that they actually had to evacuate some of the homes and this area just in case that the fire jumped the ridge line hopped onto peoples roofs and all of a sudden caught this neighborhood on fire. Residents of this neighborhood. You were not evacuated man, but you said you saw somebody get arrested, i heard somebody getting last night about a couple blocks down we saw were hurt some of his kneeling for help. They sounded a bit yelling for help multiple times on the and. We are multiple times a lot of people are kind of gathering around about 5 minutes later the sheriffs from and showed up. About 6 s
Distance of the fire. And thats why the firefighters actually had to evacuate many of the homes last night just in case that fire jumped the fire line the embers carried over and then could possibly set this neighborhood on fire. Fortunately that was not the case the people were allowed to return to their homes in the overnight hours as far as the cause of the fire didnt take them very long to figure that out at least one person was arrested possibly many more by the end of today as far as the fire got out of hand really quickly. Its an area thats hard to ach you cant drive your fire trucks up there so they have hoses going along the ridge line and when that was not enough to actually took to the air and drop fire retardant down to the flames and the people in the neighborhood they are thankful that the firefighters quickly pounced on the flames because this area because its so dry and the home so close that this neighborhood give the easily been something that we saw in santa rosa whe