A peninsula. Smoke was about, id say 100, 100ft up. Its probably been the biggest fire ive seen. That firefighter, it was a long one, but it has come to an end tonight. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach. And im Heather Holmes. The fire is at sims metal in redwood city, and it broke out just before 3 00 this afternoon. The flames sent smoke into several nearby cities, prompting air quality concerns. Our joey huerta joins us now live from redwood city. And joey, firefighters have pinpointed where in the yard this fire first began. Thats right. Heather and mike all clear now. The fire is out. You can still smell a metallic odor in the air now. And as i step out of the way, you can see crews who work at this scrapyard are still at it, moving things around with their heavy equipment tonight. And were told by the fire department, this all came down to a pile of cars that caught fire. Thick black plumes of smoke billowing over the horizon. Skyfox shows the view from above. Sims metal, a s
Change how lawmakers are hoping to deter protesters from blocking major highways. After thousands of them stopped traffic on bay area bridges to call for a ceasefire in gaza. We make even more impediments to have customers come to the street. We are worried it will drive more business away from oakland. And a proposed city project in oakland now has that veterinarian nervous about losing business . When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Good evening. Thanks for joining us for kron for news at 10. Im ken wayne and im noelle bellow tonight. Police say they found nothing suspicious after San Jose City college was evacuated due to a bomb threat happened just a couple of hours ago. The video from the scene shows a police blocking the moore park avenue at bascom. Police first reported the possible bomb threat shortly after 5 this evening and officers were on scene for several hours. Officials say campus will reopen in the morning and classes will re
Purposes. I dont want my house to burn again. I dont want to go through all that. So they rebuilt exceeding fire safe standards with Defensible Space and more. This is fire proof paint that we have put on here. And then we have metal beams here, not wood inside. Lisa says 80 of the walls are made of concrete. You know, theyre solid. So theyre basically as close to fire proof as you can get, she says. During the build state farm gave its approval, but on monday came an email. They basically said, were sorry. State farms made a blanket decision because of your location, youre out. State farm says starting this summer, up to 30,000 california policy holders are being dropped by the states largest insurer, including zip codes in high risk fire areas. We were told in the beginning that that as long as we didnt drop them during the rebuild process, that they would continue carrying us. Lisa says she never got that agreement in writing and chances of an appeal on the nonrenewal are slim. Its
Manner. And in these cases, the individual entered and exited the restroom several times. You know, theres paper towels and stuff. So it looks like they piled it and then set it on fire. Captain Frank Belcastro says the man likely in his 20s, was caught on Surveillance Footage leaving the eighth floor bathroom on monday, april 8th. Around 630 in the evening, the same person was seen after a fire on easter in the seventh floor bathroom. Just after 5 p. M. The message to the Campus Community is see something, say something. If you see someone acting in a suspicious manner, you should always reach out to upd. Whats still unknown is whether or not the suspect is a student or a community member. The upper floors of the library were once exclusive to students, but now all eight floors are open to anyone who visits. One student tells us hes had issues before. Me personally, i sometimes dont feel safe because i have some experience with homeless myself where they come up to me and they just ju
Country to get the best view. If youre here in the bay area, and if you hear my voice, you probably are, you wont be left out. The places with special events planned for todays solar show. Good morning to you on this monday, march 8th, kumasi did not go anywhere. I didnt go anywhere. Im just going to enjoy the eclipse right here. And its going to be fabulous because this is going to be cloudy in texas where she was supposed to be. You made the right call. Yes, i checked this morning. Im like, oh gosh. And im like, its still cloudy. Its gonna look great here. Its also going to be a very warm day today. So outside this morning we have our mount tam cam. We have great visibility with clear skies up above. So lets talk about that eclipse. The eclipse will begin at 1014 this morning. The time of maximum eclipse for us. Well see about a third of the sun obscured by the moon. That will occur at 1113 later on this morning. Remember, dont look directly at the sun. You want those special sunglas