Are there. An urgent plea from police after a 6 yearold boy is killed on july 4th what we know about the investigation tonight good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news today. We have a team of reporters following these fires across the bay area we begin in the east bay where a fire burned close to homes in rodeo and thats where we have kron 4 status aqi joining us live with the very latest on that fire taylor. Welcome though wind is still picking up a little bit here today, the wind played a huge role and how this fire behaved and where it moved today earlier it started out as 2 smaller fires, but ultimately merge into one as the winds picked up now thankfully though the one good thing about the wind is that it pushed the fire away from homes, nearby and instead pushed the fire into the wilderness area you see here behind me. Now you can see that that areas no longer smoking like it was just hours ago. If you take a look at this video from e
All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get some news this morning in the south bay, the cruise fires burned 5400 acres in Santa Clara County. Cal fire says its now about 20 contained and evacuations are still in place this morning. And the fire has destroyed 2 buildings and one person was hurt kron fours dan thorn has more. Flames chewing through thousands of acres as firefighters battled the crews fire. The dry brush crackling for a second day as the wildfire threatened homes and forced evacuations along kenyada road for this man thankfully his rural ranch home was spared. I was relieved, i was i was only able to make it up last night and i was able to tell couple the neighbors that there are places where intact. The house and the horses were protected from the ground and from the air fire retardant dropped from above even covered some of his animals by horses got red said i have read horses, so thats thats an experience because the flames spread so quickly, hundreds of firefighters from a
58 jose and 53 San Francisco for comparison sake. Its a little colder this morning going on in some cases approaching 5 degrees behind a little bit of catchup here for Half Moon Bay in portions of the peninsula by the way for that fog a little bit that we have will clear up pretty nicely for us, but the mid Morning Hours to return to a similar kind of set up it looks like tomorrow morning and next up nicely as well as we get into the afternoon so for today. We do about 58 come about 08 00am come leavenworth still at 72, but a nice little warm up it looks like for this week ahead after all were getting into the middle portions of july robin back to you. Sounds good. Thank you dave well to the south bay now the crews fire has burned 5400 acres in Santa Clara County cal fire says that its about 20 contained so far and so far 2 buildings have been destroyed and one person was hurt. The dry brush wildfire forces, evacuations right along kenyada road keep in mind that can ya to road is well
Upper hand on their crews fire thats burning near gilroy. That fire has tripled in size in the last 24 hours alone. Kron fours will tran live in gilroy this morning. He has the latest for us well. Tripled in size unfortunately, the percentage of the containment has now tripled in size or was here 24 hours ago and it was at 15 containment. Now its only a 20 we should get an update from cal fire any moment now their command center is actually in morgan hill where they were dealing with the fire just a a day or so ago, they are still dealing with this this is the heavy lifting that they need to do look at this. This is can ya to road liquor robin in. Marty its still small during their lands around this location or yards. I should say that just been decimated by the fire everything wiped out fortunately though no homes have been destroyed just outhouses or structures but nothing where people live. Let me show you the video of the fire this actually started on sunday afternoon raced along t
Will tran live in gilroy this morning. He has the latest for us will. Good news to pass along even though the fire continues to burn we did get an update from cal fire this morning and they did say the numbers remain the same it still 20 containment but more importantly the acreage remains at 5400 so i did not grow in the overnight hours and more importantly did not explode in the overnight hours. However it did more than triple from 24 hours ago i was i was at this location. 24 hours ago and it was at 1500 acres now were sitting at 5400 acres but more importantly. No fatalities and no injuries and 2 structures have been destroyed, but theyre not homes. This is an area you dont see any cars other than the media or the Fire Department because its still closed off to the public. This is the area that was evacuated on sunday as the fire continues to burn it is not windy at this time in the firefighters hope to take advantage of this window of opportunity to really make progress on the fir