And get a flex 4k streaming device with peacock premium included for no additional cost. Sonoma county bracing for big crowds this weekend. Amid a spike of coronavirus cases. How families are celebrating small here in the east bay. Getting a group together for july 4th, while you may be tempted Health Experts suggest you resist. Building a better bay area, this is abc7 news. We are facing a very different fourth of july this year. Coronavirus cases are surging and hospitalizations are on the rise. Bay area residents who hoped for return to normal will instead find beaches closed, wos, the officials are outdoor hoping all of us will just stay safe and stay at home. Tonight, marin county was added to californias watch list after an increase in transmission rates and hospitalizations. Many of them are from the outbreak at san quinton prison. And also added to the states list, montrae and san diego counties. Firefighters in San Francisco have already been busy. A house was damaged in a fir
Fireworks explosion, this evening. The San Francisco fire drain pipe, it blew ice larger three windows out of the house, no injuries. 15 especially were displaced by fire in San Franciscos Mission District that may have been started by fireworks. Two buildings burned and no one hurt. Bu warning. San francisco, fireworks are illegal for a reason. We could lose entire communities by fireworks. In the east bay, contra costa fire crews are busy as well. Fireworks are blamed for a grass fire off of highway 4 and also they are fighting a barn fire. The cause of the fires is under sth up a hill side in san jose. It started at about 7 00. That is near the happy hollow zoo. You can see the flames burning the grass there. It took san jose firefighters a little more than an hour and a half to get it under control. The lack of legal fireworks venues and an increase in illegal fireworks has firefighters, police and residents on alert. From the peninsula, to the Oakland Hills there will be volunteer
And both the increase of illegal fireworks and lack of open places for people to light their legal Francisco Fire Department says a device largen than an m80 was setoff in a drainpipe. It blew three windows out of a house. Investigators say there were no injuries. And also yesterday 15 people were displaced by a fire that hit two buildings in the mission district. Multiple witnesses saw and heard them just before smoke was seen at nearby buildings but no official cause yet. In San Francisco fires are illegal for a reason. We could lose entire communities by fireworks. Law enforcement is trying Something Different to catch sites of fireworks this year. From the peninsula to Oakland Hills volunteers are going to be stationed in parks and hilltops in the bay area this weekend. Theyll actually have binoculars to report any sights of flames or smoke to authorities. Well bring camp chairs as you say, well have our hand held radios. Well be scanning the horizon for fires, for telltale smoke.
Look live our sutro tower camera. And at the lighthouse there in santa cruz its going to be nice. Temperatures going to climb to near 80 degrees at the beach, 55 near the delta. Less breeze today but chilly this morning. Upper 40s in santa rosa and petaluma. Low 60s by 9 00 in oakland and warm through the 70s and 80s. By 2 00 weve got the low 90s returning, so thats about 5 to almost 10 degrees warmer today in our inland valleys. Around the bay maybe 7 degrees warmer. At the coast our sea breeze will pick up. Itll be breezy there but tonight we wont see much in the way at fog. Well track that forecast, but the cooler week ahead coming up, liz . Okay, lisa, thank you. And new overnight contra costa fire crews were responding to at least 13 fires. There were four fires in the span of 30 minutes that involved two cars and two homes in concord. Firefighters quickly got the flames under control, and fi fireworks are being blamed as well for a grass fire in pittsburgh off highway 4 in ludrid