To transfer. The patient to the hospital, the situation becomes worse and the number of available ambulances gets reduced. This isnt a new thing. This has happened periodically over the years and its not unique to contra costa. Since september, the number of ambulances has increased from 54 to 72 per day, but Officials Say theyve received 240 calls for an ambulance this year alone. More than two thirds of them needed serious advanced medical attention, and paramedics are hard to hire and keep. We are putting up to a dozen firefighter emts through Paramedic School and then our subcontractor, amr, is also putting many of their emts who want to become paramedics through this Paramedic School, hospitals are overburdened and understaffed with hospital wait times for ambulances up to an hour at places like contra costa regional and john muir, walnut creek. We have seen some success with sutter delta in antioch, who has reduced their ambulance patient offload time in the last 12 months by a f
Ten year old boy accused of murder following a deadly stabbing at an east bay safeway, definitely surprised, especially with the crime of this magnitude that the suspect is someone of such a young age. Its not something that you see every day and the young suspect arrested at his middle school. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im julie julie haener. The deadly stabbing happened last month at a Safeway Store in san leandro. The victim, just 18 years old, new at ten. Tonight, ktvu is amber lee joins us now. Shes at San Leandro Police department with the latest developments. Amber julie. Police tell me that this deadly stabbing started as a dispute between two groups of teenagers and that there is no evidence that they knew each other prior to this incident. Police say 18 year old zion gooden was stabbed and killed inside this Safeway Store on bancroft avenue in san leandro. Lieutenant abe tang tells me a 13 year old stabbed gooden in the arm and chest. April second around 515 in
Violence directed gun violence directed at our police officers. Ive been doing this a very long time. Ive never seen us San Jose Police officers take so much gunfire in such a short period of time. Apartment complex residents called 911, which brought a swarm of police officers. Neighbor jorge chavez used his cell phone to show officers converging on the van after the initial shooting. We hear a gunshot, and we. At first we thought it was like a firecracker, but we didnt think much of it. And later we hear like two more gunshots. And then thats when i looked out to the kitchen window and i saw there was like a van with broken windows. Villarreal was eventually cornered by three officers, all three on the force. Three and a half years. Four years and four and a half years fired, hitting and dropping the suspect. This apartment complex was filled with people enjoying a warm sunday evening. Families, friends and children were safe one minute and the next in grave danger. What they did nex
Against the backdrop of the war in gaza, the bodies of iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and irans foreign minister were recovered following an hours long search. A helicopter carrying those two key leaders, along with six others, crashed in a mountainous area near irans northern border. Welcome everyone to the for this afternoon. Im alex savage and im heather holmes. Experts saying this deadly crash could not have come at a worse time with increased tensions there in the middle east. We want to bring in now our jana katsuyama, whos been monitoring the situation and also has some bay area reaction. Yes, and i spoke to some local expats who had frankly been supportive of the opposition. And they say that they are relieved that there will be a new election. Irans ayatollah, the Supreme Leader, named the Vice President as interim president today. I spoke with several bay area scholars who say this is a big blow to the regime losing two of its top leaders, president raisi and the hardline fo
One occupant in the vehicle at the time. We have also heard that there were reports of gunfire. Weve heard from several witnesses in the area about reports of gunfire, multiple shots fired, at least one person transported away in an ambulance. And again, not a lot of details at this time. Weve tried to reach out to lieutenant on scene. There is now a captain here on scene trying to get more information. Were hearing that a Public Information officer is due here on scene at this point, we have not seen that Public Information an officer. So we are trying to wait at this time to get more information about this. But again, what were hearing is that a vehicle with at least one occupant drove into the front of the consulate. Shots were fired. The initial report that i heard from a city worker was that it was the occupant of that vehicle who was shot at. At this point, we dont have an update on their condition or any word on how they are doing. So we are at this time waiting for more detail.