Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital earlier tonight, good evening, everybody thanks for being here 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the accident took place at the departments training yard. An investigation into what happened is now underway or kron fours terisa stasio has details. The fire chief was visibly shaken as she talked about losing this firefighter. She also talked about how the Department Needs to be strong right now during this very sad time we lost a young man named jason cortez who has a wife. And 2 little kids as a father. Retired from the San Francisco Fire Department. All of them are grieving. As is. This Fire Department family. A somber San Francisco fire chief Janine Nicholson reflecting on losing one of their own. In a horrible accident. It was around 10 00am wednesday at the Training Facility on 19th and fulsome fire Officials Say the court has got injured he was rushed to the sucker berg San Francisco General Hospital. A short distance away whe
Fire which is an extension of the glass fire and on the right part of your is the shady fire which is on the hills on the napa Sonoma County border along Spring Mountain road. A number of evacuations have already been we just learned a second ago that santa rosa fire issuing an evacuation. For the area of north calistoga south calistoga and the party in zones because of that approaching wildfire which is indeed the shady fire which is burning. Northeast of the city. According to state senator mike Mcguire Calfire local firefighters are trying to divert resources around they can contain all 3 of these fires that have started up. Santa rosa. Again the Fire Department theyre saying its no longer safe to remain in those locations that jonathan just said north calistoga south calistoga and people though that live in riken valley skyhawk and lows almost are being encouraged to review their evacuation and preparedness information right now theyre just being told to be ready because so far the
Calm down in the afternoon giving firefighters the upper hand really trying to get everything we can get done. Done before the wind picks up and then of course nighttime brings additional complications, firefighters unable to catch a break many coming from other fires in the region, the glass incident fire broke out during a red flag warning about 200 pg and e napa county customers were scheduled for a Public Safety power shutoff down more than a 1000 homes under an evacuation warning really urge you to do what you can. To clear Defensible Space around your home. The ready water things to evacuate with that you need know what you need to pick up so youre not trying to find important papers things like that at the last minute. And this point in time it is too early to tell and many buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Firefighters are focusing on structure protection and stopping the spread of the fire the cause is under investigation. In saint helene gayle ong kron 4 news. And wer
Acres so far. It is 0 contained. Look at how tiny the firefighters and the trucks look up against the glow of the huge fire that is burning more than 2 1000 structures right now are in harms way threatened by these flames low once again were used to that site, heres a map that shows you. Where the fire is burning now burning east of saint helena and calistoga in napa county and then again just east of santa rosa in Sonoma County the cause of the fire still unknown, but that red line is the perimeter of where these fires are burning right now we know that it started in an area that was under a red flag warning which as john was preparing us for as were going into the weekend we knew temperatures are going to get awfully hot as we head into sunday, yeah it was so hot last night and you can smell. That smoke i did write when i woke up this morning plus there are 2 other fires in napa county believed to be a spot fires of the glass fire, lets take a look at the napa Sonoma County line is w
Alamos road near fawn drive and scotland drive in Sonoma County. The sky Hawk Community has had to evacuate there have been many homes lost already they cant get near these areas other than to fire fight the cant count. The number of buildings that have burned. But we do know that at least entire winery with an in has burned down to the ground weve seen several homes go up in flames right before our eyes. Also a lot of ranch land included in that 10,000 plus acres total yeah, in fact as daryn mentioned skyhawk we have some video from their earlier from 4 Sarah Stinson was there as well and that is. One of the areas where weve actually seen homes burn in our live pictures, right there along the roads that border skyhawk drive in fact, heres a map illustrating where these fires are burning right now so let me lay the land for you. We had as i mentioned early yesterday a fire break out in napa county thats the icon you see towards the upper portion of the screen. That is the glass fire. W